The New Yorker's Online Cartoon Contest

Some of you may have entered The New Yorker’s caption contest located in the back of the weekly magazine. Well,…

Why men don't read books, or, yet another reason why being a woman is a disadvantage

My friend Nataliya sent me this article from Salon.com called Why men don’t read books. The article doesn’t explain why…

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I went on a serious Dan Chaon kick and ordered all of his books. That is why after this one…

The Harper Studio posted something about an ad campaign by Penguin. The images from the campaign are pretty cool, I’ve…

I am one of the few who never really cared for J. D. Salinger’s work. To be fair, I’ve only…

I found a website from another person’s blog that lists contests of all sorts, but of course I was only…

Dan Chaon won me over with his collection of short fiction, Among the Missing, so I decided to see if…