Your education is in their hands... their totally shameless hands. Meet ten teachers who definitely had the last laugh. At you. In the teachers' lounge. With all their friends. 1. This teacher who totally went there 2. This teacher who just shattered your dreams 3. This Chemistry teacher who refuses to give Gaga the artistic…
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Survivor: Finals Edition
Our top 10 study tips to help you survive dreaded finals week. You're going out on a date tonight. It's with someone you really like. You've been looking forward to this for several months. But there's a catch! You have to meet your date's parents first. You really would just rather avoid this ordeal and…
For Memorial Day: Ten Authors Who Have Served
Writers, perhaps unsurprisingly, are among the harshest critics of the word "patriotism" and especially of decisions to go to war. Many express sentiments similar to James Baldwin (Go Tell It on the Mountain) who said, “I love America more than any other country in the world and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right…
Top Ten Summer Readings for 2013
Ahhhh, summer! Finally, some time for a bit of pleasure reading. Got a gift certificate you've been hanging on to? (Ha. Mine are gone minutes after they hit my hands.) Or maybe you are just overwhelmed with choices and don't want to waste precious free time on something that isn't so great. Well, we at…
Ten Cocktails for You, From Literature
If you've ever hosted or been to a book club meeting, you know that you will discuss the book in question for approximately ten to fifteen minutes before the conversation turns to sex. Why not at least attempt to keep things on a literary bent (and bender) and try something besides chardonnay. Here are ten…
The Daily Rituals of Ten of the World’s Most Creative People
Do you have a daily ritual when you write? I don't know of a single writer who does not. Maybe it's summoning the Muse...everything must be just so if there is any hope of words appearing on paper. Most of us are NOT like the writer, Muriel Spark who, Ann Lamott notes, "is said to have felt that she was taking…
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That’s an Egrig… Egregou… Egregious Error: Most Commonly Misspelled and Looked-up Words
When I worked in a bookstore in my early twenties (my mother said it was the equivalent of putting an alcoholic behind a bar), this book was one we stocked. I worked in the tiny store inside an elite hotel alone and Nurnberg's book was one I frequently thumbed through in between waiting on doctor's…
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“Methinks thou art a general offense”: Cats Deliver Shakespearean Insults
Because what goes better with a haughty insult than a haughty, haughty feline? Henry IV, Part Two Henry IV, Part One The Two Gentlemen of Verona All's Well That Ends Well Henry IV, Part One King Lear King Lear Measure for Measure As You Like It Aaaaand the winner is... Henry IV, Part One Shakes…
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