Killer Read

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This is the Reading Group Guide for the new psychological thriller, "The Reading Group Killer." 1. Which member of your group do you think is most likely to be plotting the death of everyone else in the room?

 2. Are you sure?
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Why I Must Charge People Fees for Their Own Art

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People don’t want to buy rocking chairs anymore. But the lack of sales doesn’t stop people from making them. As a result, we rocking chair sellers have come up with a solution.
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Paris, Wikipedia, and My Middle Age Crisis

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The crisis goes on like this night and day. It matters little whether I’m on YouTube, watching television, flipping through my wife’s magazines or churning through RSS feeds and Twitter updates, there are always endless amounts of famous, middle-age men to look up.
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The Dog Massage

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I am an old dog, yes, but like to think that I’m open to new tricks.
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The Hot Stove Report: A Parody

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Now that the 2010 season has ended, it’s time to look at the off-season transactions that will shape next year’s division rivalries and pennant races.  Here, then, are a few of baseball’s most notable available free agents.
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T-Shirts I Have Known

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Remembering vanished shirts is a somewhat wistful thing. Each one means so much, yet each will disappear.
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Bulletin: Interview with Tom McCarthy, General Secretary, INS

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This arboreal carnage seemed fitting, however, prior to a meeting with a man who teaches a class on Catastrophe, and who founded the International Necronautical Society, whose mission is to “map, enter, colonise and, eventually, inhabit” the space of death.
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Again, I Ask: Are Picture Books Leading Our Children Astray?

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The next time you’re in the supermarket, inspect a box of Alpha-Bits. What you’ll find in that milk-splashed bowl will shake you to your core.
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Fourth-Grade Summer Reading: Portnoy’s Complaint

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Portnoy complained about EVERYTHING. I probably should’ve picked Diary of A Wimpy Kid.
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Are Picture Books Leading Our Children Astray?

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It’s now widely believed that Outbreak, the 1995 Dustin Hoffman Ebola thriller, was at least partially inspired by Caps For Sale.
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The Road: A Comedic Translation (Part 5)

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Yes, said the nameless man to the nameless child, gazing out at the ruin caused by some massive anonymous catastrophe. Thats how we keep things interesting.
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The Road: A Comedic Translation (Part 4)

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Their ravenous mouths were sandwichless, the frail lie exposed. A cracked and empty cicadashell. The new world gray and skeletonboned, heavy with reckoning. No barrelpickles anywhere, not even Polish dills.
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Happily Ever After: Husband and Wife discuss “The Bachelor”

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My question to you is why does "The Bachelor" -- a show with a largely female audience -- continue to enforce these sexist stereotypes of what a women can (and in some cases, should) be?
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The Road: A Comedic Translation (Part 3)

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I dont know, the man said, and it was truth. He didnt know where all the apostrophes had gone.
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The Road: A Comedic Translation (Part 2)

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The city was blackened, burned to completion. No sign of life. Not a hobo nor trollop, tourist nor knishvendor. Cars swimbled with ash, heavy with parkingtickets. Never to be paid nor contested, no weary fist shaken at the judge’s vacant robes.
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The Road: A Comedic Translation (Part 1)

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In the knapsacks were essential things: tins of food, metal utensils, a broken Slinky, a canopener, three bullets, a picture of ham.
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