THE MOST FUNCTIONAL ENGLISH WORD

Well, it’s shit … that’s right, shit!  Shit may just be the most functional word in the English language. You can smoke shit, buy shit, sell shit, lose shit, find shit, forget shit, and tell others to eat shit. Some people know their shit, while...

New Titles Out Next Week

from Shelf Awareness Attainment: New Titles Appearing Next Week Selected new titles appearing next Tuesday, April 8: The Third Angel: A Novel by Alice Hoffman (Shaye Areheart Books, $25, 9780307393852/0307393852) follows three women facing important life choices....

White People Steal Music

from Stuff White People Like Blog #93 Music Piracy March 30, 2008 by clander  White people have always been renowned for having ridiculously large music collections. So when file sharing gave white people a chance to acquire all the music they ever wanted, it felt as...

The Decline and Fall of the Writer

from the New York Observer Freelance Fizzle! The Decline and Fall of the Writer  BY DOREE SHAFRIR  “There’s not one path anymore,” David Hirshey, executive editor of HarperCollins and former longtime deputy editor of Esquiremagazine, said the other day. “Thirty years...