literature
Lemony Snicket Responds to Lauren Conrad's Craft Project with an Awesome Burn
Caity Weaver · 08/16/12 05:11PMCharles Dickens to Be Very Embarrassed When Everyone Reads all the Stuff He Crossed Out
Caity Weaver · 08/08/12 05:40PMImagine if 100 years after you died, people started analyzing every text you'd ever sent, uncovering deleted punctuation and word choices and debating among themselves why you messaged that guy you were merely "looking forward to the party," when earlier drafts revealed you were, in fact, "so excited to see [him]!!"
Weird Internets: The Amazing Found-on-Twitter Sonnets of Pentametron
Max Read · 04/30/12 11:34AMSnoop Dogg's New Book Will Literally Get You High
Emma Carmichael · 04/06/12 11:20AMYou know when you're reading a book, and the book is kind of meh, and so you decide to roll a joint, but then you realize you ran out of rolling papers and forgot to buy a new pack, because you are a stoner? Sucks, right? Problem solved, thanks to the melted brain of America's favorite burnout, Snoop Dogg.
Bloomberg's Fanciful Daughter Invents Fictional Character Just Like Her
Hamilton Nolan · 03/01/12 12:42PMJapanese Fart Scrolls Are the Best Scrolls
Max Read · 02/20/12 02:18PMWipe Your Butt With Moby Dick Typed on Toilet Paper, for $400
Maureen O'Connor · 01/23/12 04:25PMJames Franco Is Going to Ruin Literature Once Again
Brian Moylan · 01/03/12 06:18PMThe Five Types of Posts You Find at Thought Catalog
Hamilton Nolan · 12/15/11 01:05PMThought Catalog, the Slate.com of urban 25-year-old creative writing majors (and their spiritual kin) who are incapable of being boring, is redefining the art of blog post writing for a new and vibrant generation. Today's "The Different Types Of People You See At The Gym" is but one example of the fresh, unexplored literary frontiers that they are, you know, exploring. What other types of posts can you find on Thought Catalog?
Is This Comely Lady the Real Jane Austen?
Seth Abramovitch · 12/06/11 12:40AMThere is only one accepted portrait of Jane Austen, sketched by her sister in 1810, in which the author of Sense and Sensibility and Pride and Prejudice looks to be extremely pissed off. But Austen scholar Dr. Paula Byrne, who is working on a definitive biography due out some time in 2013, has discovered a portrait in auction, and thinks there is an excellent possibility that the woman in it daintily holding a quill and staring out a window pensively — which, coincidently, is precisely how I look at this exact moment — could be Austen herself.
Salman Rushdie's Facebook Seduction and Break-Up with a Crazed Reality Star
Maureen O'Connor · 12/02/11 01:20PMLast week, CW reality star and Maxim UK pin-up Devorah Rose tweeted a suggestive message about Salman Rushdie. Asked about his relationship with Devorah, Rushdie told Page Six that he was "mortified" to be connected to her. When Devorah heard that, she went nuclear and gave copies of her Facebook interactions with Rushdie to several gossip outlets.
Why You Should Never Be Profiled by The New York Times Style Section
Max Read · 12/01/11 02:07PMReport: English Lit Professors Write Too Much Boring Crap
Hamilton Nolan · 11/21/11 12:49PMBill O'Reilly's New Abe Lincoln Book Banned by Place Where Lincoln Was Shot
Lauri Apple · 11/12/11 07:35PMHow many more indignities must Bill O'Reilly suffer as he tries to peddle his published wares to the discerning public? First the acclaimed television host and author had to witness U.S. soldiers burning his Pinheads and Patriots and boasting about it, and now Ford's Theatre is banning his new Abe Lincoln book for being wrong about everything.
Your Betting Guide to the 2011 Nobel Prize in Literature
Adrian Chen · 10/04/11 02:43PMMonkeys on Typewriters 'Close to Reproducing Shakespeare'
Maureen O'Connor · 09/26/11 12:01PMMan's Dolphin Sex Memoir Suddenly Very Popular
Maureen O'Connor · 09/23/11 02:01PMOn Poems That Have Nothing to Do With Their Titles
Hamilton Nolan · 09/20/11 11:22AMThe Gawker Guide to Fall Books
Lauri Apple · 09/02/11 02:23PMFall's the time for sitting on the couch with an overflowing snack bowl and dogs in your lap, sunning yourself in the bright lamp light that helps you to manage your Seasonal Affective Disorder, and trying not to think of winter. In other words, a perfect time for reading—and this fall brings the release of so many intriguing-sounding books that narrowing down the options was so hard. But we did it, and now here you go.