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Posted inEssays & Criticism, Highlight, Nonfiction, Quotes

How to Stay Out of Your Editor’s ‘Jerks’ File

by Sari Botton November 8, 2019October 19, 2022

Rule one of freelance writing: accept rejection with grace.

Posted inEditor's Pick

Don’t Be a Jerk to Your Online Humor Editor

by Sari Botton November 8, 2019October 19, 2022

McSweeny’s Internet Tendency editor Chris Monks catalogues some of the rudest responses to his rejections of humor writers’ submissions to the site.

Posted inStory

Queens of Infamy: Josephine Bonaparte, from Malmaison to More-Than-Monarch

by Anne Thériault April 4, 2019October 18, 2022

In fraught games of power politics, sometimes the best revenge is not being exiled to die alone on an island in the South Atlantic.

Posted inCulture, Nonfiction, Quote Posts, Quotes

Oh Come On, Dad!

by Aaron Gilbreath September 26, 2018October 19, 2022

Appreciating the dad joke.

Posted inEditor's Pick

Do Men Enter Bathtubs on Hands and Knees?

by mikedang August 22, 2018October 19, 2022

A BabyCenter message board post launches a writer into an investigation with hilarious results.

In a movie theater, rows of red velvet chairs sitting empty in front of a blank screen.
Posted inArts & Culture, Reading List

Great Reviews Of Movies I Have Never Seen: A Reading List

by Sara Benincasa July 13, 2018October 19, 2022

Sometimes, the review is better than the film it reviews.

Posted inEditor's Pick

How I Got Funny at 46

by Sari Botton May 10, 2018October 19, 2022

A personal essay in which author Michelle Tea writes about discovering, through stand-up, the potential for humor to heal trauma and bond people.

Bodybuilder reading the Paper Upside Down
Posted inHighlight, Media, Quotes

Area Man Knows All About Fake News

by Catherine Cusick March 27, 2018October 19, 2022

But who’s Area Man? In an era of fake news crackdowns, satirical newspapers aren’t adding up.

Posted inHighlight, Nonfiction, Quotes, Unapologetic Women

Jared the Menace

by Catherine Cusick March 19, 2018October 19, 2022

Sloane Crosley faces the music. Jared’s music. Knock it off, Jared. Jared?! Jared!!!

Posted inNonfiction

Hello, Lenin? (Berlin, 1997)

by Rebecca Schuman February 2, 2017October 26, 2022

When an American exchange student discovered that the Germans never lose anything.

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