It takes a very specific breed of person to enjoy the process of a job search, and by this I mean somebody who is either a complete psychopath, or has an automatic leg up thanks to all of their dad’s rich and powerful friends (better still, maybe they are part of both categories!). The action …
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Brainless Men Who Wrote Women in a Truly Terrible Way
I’d like to be an optimist about the whole debacle that is gender relations. We may struggle under thousands of years’ worth of sexist principles, but with a little effort to learn things might get better eventually. In some ways, they already have, but it’s easy to look at certain areas of life and feel …
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Literary Memes for Voracious Bookworms
It may be hard for us to believe now, but there was a time when we did most of our reading off of a page instead of a screen. Despite the best efforts of technological advancement to squash the traditional version of the written word, books still rule when it comes to novels, cookbooks, poetry …
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Brilliant Twitter Thread Roasts The Way Male Authors Describe Women
Thank you, Literary Twitter for starting our new favorite hashtag challenge. The fun stems from the #OwnVoices hashtag, which addresses the voices of marginalized communities. The hashtag naturally had its critcs; among them was a male author that insisted he was living proof that men are capable of penning realistic female characters. After Gwen C. …
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Weird Dude Sends Cringey Breakup Letter After Being Dumped
We always talk about how painful it is when romantic relationships end, but we’re less willing to admit how embarrassing the whole affair is. Heartbreak has produced some amazing works of art over the course of human history, but most of us experience it as something far more cringeworthy. Often, this comes in the form …
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Persnickety Grammar Memes for Haters of Misplaced Apostrophes
The English language is a hell of a trip. All those thousands of years of creating words and stealing from other tongues have made it something that most of us need to study from kindergarten just to understand how to use it. Even the most devoted grammarians make the occasional mistake with English, because there …
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Worker Gets Asked To Share Notes After Zoom Meeting, Gets Chided For Doodling
It helps with concentration, right?
Hilarious Spelling Fails That Prove The Power of Proofreading
It’s easy to write something and never go back to edit it. After all, there are only so many hours in a day to get things done, and in many jobs, if you throw something onto the page, often nobody will clock your errors. No matter your job, it’s usually a good idea to know …
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People Debate The Usefulness of Cover Letters
It takes a very specific breed of person to enjoy the process of a job search, and by this I mean somebody who is either a complete psychopath, or has an automatic leg up thanks to all of their dad’s rich and powerful friends (better still, maybe they are part of both categories!). The action …
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A Page of Literary Memes for Voracious Bookworms
It may be hard for us to believe now, but there was a time when we did most of our reading off of a page instead of a screen. Despite the best efforts of technological advancement to squash the traditional version of the written word, books still rule when it comes to novels, cookbooks, poetry …
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