Articles by: Alyssa Bereznak

Dating

Ernest Hemingway’s Online Dating Profile

Ernest Hemingway’s Online Dating Profile

TheSeaMan 31/Male/Straight/Single Key West, Florida My self-summary I am a man of war.

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Interviews

“It’s Very Personal, Looking at People’s Books”: An Interview With Nina Katchadourian

“It’s Very Personal, Looking at People’s Books”: An Interview With Nina Katchadourian

Nina Katchadourian—an artist you may have previously seen in a Flemish airline toilet portrait—started arranging book spines as a graduate student in 1990. Not her own, or those in a public library, but the collection of her classmate’s parents. They lived in a foggy California beach town called Half Moon [...]

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Hmmmm

Is Captain Underpants More Offensive Than Fifty Shades of Grey?

Is Captain Underpants More Offensive Than Fifty Shades of Grey?

This week, the American Library Association announced its annual list of “challenged books.” The report is meant to offer insight on the literature that might inspire an otherwise perfectly adjusted youth to forget to tie his shoes, or eat an unhealthy lunch, or . . . set an entire school [...]

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Celebs

Surprise! Jason Segel Wrote a YA Series

Surprise! Jason Segel Wrote a YA Series

Shortly after his one-year stint as the dopey Nick Andopolis on Judd Apatow’s famously cancelled series Freaks and Geeks, Jason Segel wrote a movie script that was never produced. Twelve years, a blockbuster movie, and a hit sitcom series later, the star has adapted that forgotten script into a series of [...]

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Dating

Jack Kerouac’s Online Dating Profile

Jack Kerouac’s Online Dating Profile

DharmaBum 29/Male/Straight/Single Nowhere and everywhere, USA My self-summary catholic and buddhist and traveler with an eye for everything and nothing and the potent and inconceivable radiancies shining in bright Mind Essence. sorry if my profile pic makes me look like a thirty-year-old italian who’d kill anybody who said something against [...]

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Cuuuuute

Oh Hey, Sylvia Plath Wrote a Children’s Book

Oh Hey, Sylvia Plath Wrote a Children’s Book

As a brooding young high-schooler, you probably had a major lit-crush on one Sylvia Plath, the overwhelmingly depressed/talented poet/author behind such masterpieces as The Bell Jar and Ariel. But unbeknownst to us, Plath also had a playful side. The author wrote a children’s book titled The It-Doesn’t-Matter-Suit in 1959, shortly before she gave [...]

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News

LGBT YA Fiction Under Protest in California

LGBT YA Fiction Under Protest in California

Earlier this week, the U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments challenging the constitutionality of Proposition 8, the now-infamous California law that banned same-sex marriage more than four years ago. Whether or not they will rule the law unconstitutional remains unknown. But forget gay marriage—California’s anti-gay-rights activists have found a new LGBT [...]

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Nostalgia

5 Things We Desperately Hope Clarissa Will Explain in Her New Book

5 Things We Desperately Hope Clarissa Will Explain in Her New Book

Hark, what’s that sound? It’s Clarissa Darling slowly thawing from her pop-culture carbon freeze! Everybody’s favorite denim-clad confidante has sprung from her 19-year hibernation a la Hans Solo, and returned to us as a 23-year-old aspiring journalist.

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Mysteries

Why is James Franco Reading THE LOVE SONG OF JONNY VALENTINE with Dolls?

Why is James Franco Reading THE LOVE SONG OF JONNY VALENTINE with Dolls?

Teddy Wayne’s fantastic new novel, The Love Song of Jonny Valentine, is a story about an 11-year-old mega pop star’s quest to understand his personal identity, despite the construction of his image in the commercial music industry. James Franco’s life story is about a 34-year-old mega movie star’s quest to [...]

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