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Influencer Caroline Calloway Isn't a Scammer, Just a Self-Obsessed Mess

(At the time, she was represented by literary agent Byrd Leavell, whose client roster also includes Cat Marnell, Tucker Max, and Donald Trump.) Before and after scoring a golden ticket to Cambridge Pr... read more

For Better Social Skills, Scientists Recommend a Little Chekhov

The researchers say the reason is that literary fiction often leaves more to the imagination, encouraging readers to make inferences about characters and be sensitive to emotional nuance and complexit... read more

6 Great Getaways for Book Lovers

Here are some of the best havens for book lovers across the U.S. [See: 10 Top Places That Star in Movies.] In this hip city ... an immense literary and arts collection. Unlike well-planned two-week va... read more

3 Vogue Editors On Their Wellness Resolutions For 2019

Last autumn ... on the go but I'm so awful at setting aside time to do it in my normal, non-holiday life that it takes a book to have topped a top 10 list and then slipped back down before I close the ... read more

‘Castle on the River Vistula’: Featured Fiction by Michelle Tea

“Why are we ... from his time as a baby until now. The octopus was full of love. Sophie took him from the mermaid and clutched him to her desperately, the tears in her eyes flowing into the sea around ... read more

Why do we laugh when someone falls over?

A session for teenagers at Cambridge ... why we fall in love, or what makes us laugh. "We often undervalue comedy in comparison with tragedy, with the result that we miss chances to think about how an... read more

In the Name of Public Safety

For felonies, median bail in New York City amounts to $5,000; for misdemeanors ... actually feel safer knowing that a woman or teen has left the violence of jail and returned home to go to school, ear... read more

Roxane Gay: ‘Public discourse rarely allows for nuance. And see where that’s gotten us’

He falls in love, marries her ... we going to talk about?’ Literary fiction — a lot of it’s not that good! I read good books. And they may not be the best written, but they tell a ... read more

Mental Floss's 56 Best Books of 2018

In Born to be Posthumous, Mark Dery takes the reader through Gorey's midwestern origins, his time in the Army and at Harvard, his career in New York, his enduring love of cats ... but wasn't about to ... read more

Why it’s bad that New York is sucking up the podcasting industry

Many of my best ... cities, then that means only rich kids get to become journalists. All of these people work in New York despite the fact that, for the first time in human history, they could theore... read more

The Music That Made Literary Powerhouse Eileen Myles

But unlike the other readings on Myles’ current tour, which occur in more conventional literary ... “You would love this.” I would also get music from teaching, from students. Sometimes, when I was li... read more

Superb Oddities: Robert Gottlieb Reviews a Biography of Edward Gorey

As Gorey put it, “My grandmother would go insane and disappear for long periods of time.” No wonder asylums ... is clearly received wisdom at best. He is equally weak in other areas. He refers frequen... read more