50 Shades of Grey
Smoke. Stone. Super Nintendo. Ash. Dove. Elephant. Mouse. Dust bunny. Anderson Cooper. Charcoal. Earl. Dolphin. Goose. Gunmetal. Dame Judi Dench. Pewter. Pebble. Storm cloud. Cement. Nantucket Fog....
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It Never Rained in the Bronx
You know that crazy uncle who tells weird, rambling tales and says, “I’ve got so many stories from those days I could fill a book”? What if he went ahead and made it happen? While watching the LA Kings...
View ArticleMother Jones’s “Game of Thrones” Attack Ads
It’s not a new schtick, but Mother Jones does it really well! I think it’s all the fake British accents. Also I thought “Of course they have some staffers with Renaissance Faire outfits ready” but then...
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Updating Trashy Romance Novels to Match ‘Fifty Shades of Grey’
50 Shades of Grey is the iPhone of mainstream erotic literature — it changed the game, and now all the other not-entirely-explicit romance novels have to compete or die. Luckily, Shades fans aren’t...
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Data Points: No Exit From MC Chris
Big Brother is “basically the Hunger Games as a real show.” [Brad O'Farrell] This picture from “My 6-Year-Old Judges Books by Their Covers” [Sunny Chanel on Babble]: Two people watch a video of two...
View ArticleData Points: It’s Funny Because Andy Borowitz Isn’t Funny
Katie Heaney, funny Twitter user and author of The Hairpin’s “Reading Between the Texts” column, has a book coming out. [KatieHeaney.com] An elegant video comments on Olympic hurdler Michelle Jenneke...
View ArticleData Points: Bikinis and Book Covers
Swimwear matched to book covers. The idea’s good enough, but the execution is impeccable. [MATCHBOOK] “Will’s piece on Santorum goes viral. Mackenzie’s Macbook keeps doing that spinny wheel thing when...
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10 Classic Novel Covers in 8-bit Form
Take a photograph of your girlfriend or boyfriend, wife or husband or lover. Now, pixelate it — run it through an image processor on a computer. They dissolve into art when pixelized, don’t they? Into...
View ArticleI Don’t Remember Reading These Encyclopedia Brown Books
Encyclopedia Brown and the Case of the Open Marriage Encyclopedia Brown Goes to Mars Encyclopedia Brown Takes it Off Encyclopedia Brown Redefines Rape Encyclopedia Brown Just Breathes Encyclopedia...
View ArticleGoodchild: The Forgotten Muse of Children’s Literature
A short documentary about the man who edited down Goodnight Moon from 740 pages. Other good shorts from City on Film: Voicemail and Pretty Good Professor.
View ArticleI just finished a “Goosebumps” book and now I can’t sleep
The 90s Guy is a column by a man from the 1990s. Dude, I just got done reading the freakiest Goosebumps book and now I can’t sleep. I don’t want to relive the experience so I’ll save you the goriest of...
View Article#Last Lines From Great Books: A Twitter game
Yesterday, Twitter users listed fake last lines from famous books. I’m not sure whether this tag started as something sincere; after a while there were plenty of people quoting the actual ends of all...
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The “Home Alone” novelizations are horrifying torture porn
Below are real quotes from the Home Alone novelizations. We’re not kidding, you can fact-check. — Ed. So we’re all on the same page here, right? We’ve all been in this situation? You’re on a stroll,...
View ArticleFamous author book club
Stephen King and Neil Gaiman show up to a book club in Meghan O’Neill’s newest “PICTURES” sketch.
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