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“You’ve Told Me This Joke Before”
1+ day, 22+ hour ago (1989+ words) “Don’t you want people showing up and feeling like they belong?” For the record, I’m only missing one back molar, but it caused all my other teeth to space out like a worthless picket fence. People won’t buy welcome mats,…...
Let Maggie Gyllenhaal Adapt The Bell Jar, You Cowards
3+ week, 3+ day ago (1050+ words) Literary Hub Let Maggie Gyllenhaal Adapt The Bell Jar, You Cowards Emily Van Duyne on the Promise of The Bride This essay began as a plea which turned out, as desires sometimes do, to be a little psychic (“That woman,…...
“I Hope to Die Laughing.” On Tom Drury’s The End of Vandalism
2+ mon, 3+ day ago (102+ words) The ability to laugh at the frivolity of life, down to the details, with both thought and emotion, requires a person to pay attention to the details. Here’s an example of how Drury treats what could be a passage of…...
Satire Isn’t Dead, We Just Misunderstand It
2+ mon, 3+ week ago (400+ words) Bold choice to write a satire in 2026 is a sentiment I’ve come across more than once lately. Boldness is inherent in the act of writing satire, and always has been. But in the context of the present moment, what I…...
Are Shakespeare’s Commas Really That Important?
3+ mon, 2+ day ago (957+ words) Shakespeare begins Twelfth Night with Duke Orsino describing the effect of the music he’s listening to. Here are his first eight lines, in English and Hungarian (thanks to Ádám Nádasdy): If music be the food of love, play on, Give…...
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3+ mon, 3+ day ago (11+ words) Prone To Be Productive: In Praise of Writing in Bed Literary Hub...
Why We All Hate the Word “Moist” So Much
3+ mon, 3+ day ago (307+ words) fter all, if linguists have been able to explain the first sounds we utter and the complexities of how they change over time, why can’t we explain why we have such a visceral reaction to the sound of a simple…...
In Defense of Pet Portraiture as a Worthy Art Form
4+ mon, 3+ hour ago (134+ words) There I surveyed the dried leaves in the empty fountain and counted the dwindling flowers on a bush. The class met once per week, and we each gave an update on our plot: dirty gum flattened on asphalt, the introduction…...
Happier than ever? Billie Eilish is set to star in a new adaptation of The Bell Jar.
4+ mon, 1+ week ago (345+ words) In a weirdly serendipitous bit of cinema news, Billie Eilish—queen of melancholy pop—is turning her sad eyes to Sylvia Plath. The Oscar-winning auteur Sarah Polley has tapped Eilish to lead a new adaptation of Plath’s semi-autobiographical masterpiece, The…...
What I Learned About American Men in My All-Male Book Club
4+ mon, 2+ week ago (1642+ words) This past year we’ve read thousands of pages together: Lev Grossman’s The Bright Sword, Jonathan Rosen’s The Best Minds (our only nonfiction), Andy Weir’s Project Hail Mary, Michael Crichton’s Pirate Latitudes, Mick Herron’s Slow Horses, Donna Tartt’s The Secret History,…...