Letters to the Editor of Women’s Magazines, With Edith Zimmerman

I just received the latest issue of SELF, and I’m looking forward to enjoying it from cover to cover! The section on how to save someone’s life in an emergency, the delicious-looking recipes and the fashion suggestions…

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The Awl Bookmobile: ‘Black Boy’

In the spring of 1925, a 16-year-old Jackson, Mississippi, schoolboy named Richard Wright wrote his first story. He took it to the new black paper in town, the Southern Register, showing it to the editor, Malcolm Rogers, who promptly published it. Shortly thereafter…

Toby Young Nuzzles Hand That Once Bit And/Or Fed Him

New Fish Discovered!

Researchers in Brazil discovered a new species of fish. The creature is over six feet long, is small of tooth, and is…

Mr. Wrong: Hate School, or BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMAPOTUS

Sometimes before I poop out my column I write down some notes. Yeah, I know, right? Har! Also: in crayon. So, my notes for this episode are:

The Pittsburgh G20 Dance Party Video

Study: Facebook Makes You Gay

Apologies if this was everywhere yesterday: I was siiick and didn’t read much Internet. Anyway, couple of kids at MIT did a study supposedly showing that one’s sexual preferences can be easily revealed by one’s choice of Facebook friends:

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