(Content Warning) The Unbelievable Grimness of the Herman Cain Award
“[A good letter] must be plausible, but it must also be ridiculous”
For Gawker, Bennett Madison writes about being a fabulist: “Help! I Couldn’t Stop Writing Fake Dear Prudence Letters That Got Published”
Writing fake letters to advice columns could not be considered a good career move; after all, it was unpaid and I w…
Our Never-Ending Empathy for Everything Is Backfiring
“A few years ago, I began to observe that the bulk of criticism I got was not about work I had actually done, or words I had in fact written, but about that which I wasn’t saying, or doing. I used to call this free-floating daily disparagement of all t…