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The Emotionary: words that don’t exist for feelings that do.

40 inspiring workspaces of the famously creative. E. B. White, you didn’t want a plant or something? Maybe a poster of a kitten captioned ‘Hang in there’?

15 books you should definitely not read in your 20s, or, indeed, at all, in some cases.

Great typos of literature.

‘Have we met this character before?’ = ‘I edited your MS. while watching Big Bang Theory re-runs.’ A writing-workshop-to-English dictionary.

5 books with awful first titles. Can you imagine a Baz Luhrmann film called Trimalchio in West Egg?

The etymological origin of some insults.

An 8-year-old girl invents a way to keep your book dry in the bath. The condition of that book makes it look like there were a few failed earlier attempts.

The Great Catsby: forget Jay-Z and 3D, what Fitzgerald’s classic really needs is more cats.

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