Horrifying Stories Made Comforting And Anodyne: The Cask of Amontillado
THE thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I best could, but when he ventured upon insult I vowed revenge. You, who so well know the nature of my soul, will not suppose, however, that gave...
View ArticleHow to Tell if You’re in a Raymond Chandler Story
You are the beautiful only daughter of an invalid. You are the disappointing son of a cold-hearted woman with thick arms. Your name is Derace, Orfamay, Moose, or Rusty, but you’ve asked to please be...
View ArticleAn Interview with Steve Silberman, Author of NeuroTribes
"As a society, it’s time we woke up from our collective illusion that autism is a puzzle that’s going to be solved by a medical breakthrough that’s perpetually just around the corner. Autistic people...
View ArticleEvery Time The Narrator Very Nearly Has Tea In Daphne Du Maurier’s Rebecca
Rebecca is a book about a young woman who is too frightened to ask her husband a question or even have a first name. She spends the entire novel very nearly having tea, then thinking better of it. Only...
View ArticleAn Interview with Jillian Keenan, Author of Sex with Shakespeare
In her new book, Sex with Shakespeare: Here's Much to Do with Pain, but More with Love, Jillian Keenan uses Shakespeare's plays as a vehicle to tell the story of how she came to understand her own...
View ArticleIslanders: Four Poems by Teow Lim Goh
Four poems from Teow Lim Goh's ISLANDERS, a collection of poems about the Angel Island Immigration Station, followed by a brief Q&A with the poet. Read more Islanders: Four Poems by Teow Lim Goh at...
View ArticleGuessing What French Is In Les Miserables
Le cab jaspine, je marronne que la roulotte de Pantin trime dans le sabri, the dog is barking. Le dab est sinve, la dabuge est merloussière, la fée est bative. The cab is Jasper's, the marrow will...
View ArticleWomen Who Have Gone Back in Time: An Annotated Ranking
What makes some women cross to the nether-centuries is beyond me. Here is an ordered list, from Horrifying to Most Horrifying, of women who have traveled to the Past. Read more Women Who Have Gone Back...
View ArticleTwo Linguists Explain Pseudo Old English in The Wake
Gretchen: So as far as I can tell, the goal of this book is to be something more sophisticated and legit than Ye Olde Tea Shoppe, while still being more accessible than Actual Beowulf. Read more Two...
View ArticleIn Which Three Adults Discuss The Hero and the Crown Seriously and At Length
EVERDEEN: My father gave me the book as a gift. When I was young, my dad would buy me these really nice hardcover classics as gifts, and I always felt really regal about it, like it was a tome and I...
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