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From Machiavelli's The Jonas Brother
By Jack Stuef (11/19/08)

Selections From My 2008 Fall Catalog
By Amy Halloran (11/17/08)

Noted Post-Marxist Sociologist, Philosopher, and Cultural Critic Slavoj Žižek Welcomes You to the Gym
By Evan Johnston (11/14/08)

Fire: The Next Sharp Stick?
By John Hodgman (11/13/08)

Shakespeare Wrote for Money: An Introduction
By Sarah Vowell (11/12/08)

Q&A With the Head of My Carpool
By Jon Methven (11/11/08)

FactCheck.org's Coverage of Elliott Blaufuss's 2008 Halloween Party
By Jeffrey Day (11/10/08)

David Foster Wallace: A Profile
By Bill Katovsky (11/7/08)

Fifty Years of Popular Songs Condensed Into Single Sentences
By Marc Haynes (11/6/08)

How Key Players in the 2000 Election Perform at a Modern-Dance Contest
By Bob Bringhurst (11/5/08)

An Electoral-College Breakdown for My French In-Laws That Meets All Their Preconceptions
By Nathaniel Missildine (11/4/08)

Black Shoe Diary: The Daily Musings of Shuruku Umezawa: Junior Salesman, Ninja—Installment Five: The Final Chapter
By Eric Feezell (11/03/08)

So You've Been Buried Alive
By Jim Stallard (10/31/08)

Excerpts From The Aerial Hunter's Cookbook
By Sid Popson (10/30/08)

The Ultimate Game Guide to Your Life—A Few Mini-Games From Level III: "Your Adolescence"
By Christopher Monks (10/29/08)

The Audacity of Despair
By Teddy Wayne (10/28/08)

McCain's Rejected Robo-Call Scripts
By Jason Silverstein (10/27/08)

Naked Came the Beagle—Chapter One: The Big Grief
By Matthew David Brozik (10/24/08)

A Whole Foods Manager Introduces a New Product to His Customers
By John Frank Weaver (10/23/08)

Mom's And Dad's Campaign Statements
By Gregory Beyer (10/22/08)

World of Warcraft vs. My Girlfriend
By Tyler Curry (10/21/08)

Extended Trailer for American Demographic: The Movie
By Pete Reynolds (10/20/08)

History's Monsters ŕ la Mundane
By John Hallmann (10/17/08)

When Making Love to Me: What Every Woman Must Please Keep in Mind
By Mike Sacks (10/16/08)

Excerpts From The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook: Adolescent Female Edition
By Samantha Martin (10/15/08)

The Economic Crisis Hits the Markson Family Monopoly Board
By Jon Methven (10/14/08)

Diary of a Woman Trapped Inside a Man's Body Trapped Inside a Beaver's Body
By Colin Nissan (10/13/08)

From The Complete Guide to the Care and Training of the Writer in Your Life
By David Zeltser (10/10/08)

In the Likely Event of My Posthumous Fame
By Graham T. Beck (10/9/08)

Your Candidate for Class Treasurer Has Something to Disclose
By Teddy Wayne and Greg Wayne (10/8/08)

I'm Wearing a Bracelet, Too
By Jonathan Stern (10/7/08)

Announcing the Winner of the Amanda Davis Highwire Fiction Award
(10/6/08)

Last Crumbs of My Childhood Still Available for Feature-Film Adaptation
By Michael Kaplan (10/3/08)

The Expectations Game
By Scott Blaszak (10/2/08)

A Populist's Speech for the Patriotic Masses
By Maria Parrott (10/1/08)

Chapter One of The Miracle Worker, as Written by the Other William Gibson
By Brantley Bryant (9/30/08)

Dudes! Did You See the Library They've Got Here?
By J. Byard Yoder (9/29/08)

Jigsaw Speaks His Piece
By Fortunato Salazar (9/12/08)

Welcoming Remarks Made at a Literary Reading, 9/25/01
By John Hodgman (9/11/08)

Time for a Vacation
(9/9/08)

Ulysses Sells Out
By Rebekah Frumkin (9/8/08)

There's a Plumbing Problem in the Hamptons
By John Frank Weaver (9/5/08)

Fragments From Palin! The Musical
By Ben Greenman (9/4/08)

An Anti-Environmentalist Drafts His Next Newspaper Column While Eating Takeout and Driving His Hummer
By Benjamin Cohen (9/3/08)

William Faulkner Reviews Season One of Gossip Girl
By Jason Rhode (9/2/08)

Secret Service Emergency-Response Protocol 1127B: If the President Falls Down a Well
By Susan Schorn (8/29/08)

Roll Me Away: An Earth Ball Considers Love, Loss, Sheer Hypocrisy, and Sean Hannity
By Ben Greenman (8/28/08)

Reflections on Seeing Leonard Cohen Perform in Montreal on June 23, 2008
By Sean Michaels (8/27/08)

Plato's Allegory of the Cave, as Explained by Popeye to Bluto
By Anthony Gini (8/26/08)

A Guy From Michael Phelps's Guppy Swim Class Makes a Drunk Dial
By Ravi Mangla (8/25/08)

A Senator Apologizes for the Pain Caused by His Last Apology
By Johnny McNulty (8/22/08)

Cheaters: Emotional Infidelity Unit
By Jennifer Byrne (8/21/08)

Santa's Bad 2008
By Sam Johnson and Chris Marcil (8/20/08)

My Therapist Thinks I Did My Vision Board Wrong, but I'm Pretty Sure I Nailed It
By Dan Kennedy (8/19/08)

Fragments From Edwards! The Musical
By Ben Greenman (8/18/08)

Selections From H.P. Lovecraft's Brief Tenure as a Whitman's Sampler Copywriter
By Luke Burns (8/15/08)

The Talk
By Julia Weiss (8/14/08)

Jean-Paul Sartre's Script for Without a Trace
By Bob Woodiwiss (8/13/08)

The Proofreader
By Robert Cantoni (8/12/08)

What We Talk About When We Talk About Mad-Cow Disease
By Steve Lohse (8/11/08)

The Progressive Cowpoke: Highlights From the Radio Serial
By Daniel McArdle (8/8/08)

Soberly Written Documents Rendered as Comic-Book Dialogue!
By Teddy Wayne (8/7/08)

Dionysus: Party Clown
By Russell Bradbury-Carlin (8/6/08)

A Field Guide to Your Family Reunion
By Tom McGlaughlin Jr. (8/5/08)

Miranda Warning: Iraq
By Jonathan Stern (8/4/08)

The Lost 28th Chapter of Leviticus Explains the Rules for Riding Shotgun
By Steve Etheridge (8/1/08)

Episode Synopses for the Never-Aired TV Cop Drama Razor and Smith
By Jeff Macfee (7/31/08)

Hamlet (Facebook News Feed Edition)
By Sarah Schmelling (7/30/08)

The Push Poll: A Life Approach
By Jay Dyckman (7/29/08)

Corrections to Last Month's Letters to Penthouse Forum
By David Copper (7/28/08)

How to Perform a Tracheotomy
By Sarah Walker (7/25/08)

Please Allow Sylvester Stallone a Few Words on Behalf of the Polar Bear
By Blair Becker (7/24/08)

Thank You for Choosing the Hyatt Regency Purgatory
By Bob Woodiwiss (7/23/08)

Ways to Lose at Tony Hawk's Pro Skater
By Owen Parsons (7/22/08)

Bowline Variations
By Scott Blaszak (7/21/08)

Children's-Film Sequels as Imagined by Famous Directors
By Rebekah Frumkin (7/18/08)

OK, It's Time to Talk About the Elephant in the Room
By Wendy Molyneux (7/17/08)

Field Notes on the Arctic Tern
By Jon Methven (7/16/08)

Sick of the Revolution
By Deb Olin Unferth (7/15/08)

The Best Bastille Day Party Ever
By Jim Stallard (7/14/08)

Funny Letters From Summer Camp and Their Not-So-Funny Responses
By Mike Sacks (7/11/08)

An Overheard Conversation at the Suburban Neighborhood Pool, If the Suburban Neighborhood Pool Were in Deadwood
By Kari Anne Roy (7/10/08)

Shed Camp
By David Jasper (7/9/08)

Disney Extreme Vacations
By Vince LiCata (7/8/08)

If the Head Counselor at My Old Summer Camp Wrote a Household Q&A Column
By David Jaggard (7/7/08)

Summer Safety Tips: How to Avoid a Lion Attack
By Kate Hahn (7/3/08)

Playing Balderdash With Ex-Girlfriends
By Michael Nelson Price (7/2/08)

A Copyeditor at a Business Journal Reflects on a Breakup
By Allison Morrow (7/1/08)

A Suburban Mother Tells Her 14-Year-Old Babysitter How to Make Her Parties More Raging
By Wendi Aarons (6/30/08)

The Middle East Peace Process, as Moderated by My Spin Instructor
By Paul A. Ita (6/27/08)

A Press Conference Announcing My Leaving My Girlfriend Early to Declare for the NBA Draft
By Eric Wiener (6/26/08)

Alcoholics Eponymous
By Jimmy Chen (6/25/08)

McSweeney's Presents: All Known Metal Bands
By Dan Nelson (6/24/08)

New Bowling Animations
By Sean Adams (6/23/08)

Krazy Kris
By Mike Sacks (6/20/08)

Your Millions Never Came: The Good News Is That I'm Making a Comeback
By Dan Kennedy (6/19/08)

Worse Things Happen at Sea
By Susan Schorn (6/18/08)

The Press Release for My Attempt to Break the Guinness World Record for Holding Breath Underwater
By Rick Stoeckel (6/17/08)

Lit 101 Class in Three Lines or Less
By Ben Joseph (6/16/08)

Van Gogh's Ears
By Mike Richardson-Bryan (6/13/08)

The Letters of Abelard and Heloise: Mattress Salesman and Customer
By Marianne Hess (6/12/08)

From the Mensa Events Calendar
By Sylvia Eastman (6/11/08)

Excerpts From Sex and the City and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
By Jill Morris (6/10/08)

If a Unicorn Were on the National Security Council
By Ken Saji (6/9/08)

My Campaign Speech to My Parents
By Jamie Allen (6/6/08)

None of My Science Pińatas Are Appropriate for Children
By Dave Ng (6/5/08)

Service Changes
By Jason Roeder (6/4/08)

A Word to the Graduates
By David Holub (6/3/08)

Contributor Bios for Mark as Spam Magazine, Issue Six
By Angela Genusa (6/2/08)

Lacanian Jokes of the Day
By James Warner (5/30/08)

The Opening Act From the Original, Unused Teleplay of Lost's Pilot Episode
By Andrew Bridgman (5/29/08)

What the Wonder Twins Would Take the Form of and the Shape of If They Were Sent to Correct the Subprime Mortgage Crisis
By Ben Greenman (5/28/08)

How Me Breaking Up With You Is Like Jon Lester Pitching a No-Hitter Against the Royals
By Michael Nelson Price (5/27/08)

Traditions in White Culture
By Kevin Erickson (5/23/08)

The 12 Labors of Gay Hercules
By Jason Rhode (5/22/08)

Proust Discovers LiveJournal
By Summer Block Kumar (5/21/08)

Jean-Claude Van Damme Endorses Barack Obama for President
By Jeremiah Tucker (5/20/08)

A Letter to His Imperial Majesty, Aslan
By Mari Ness (5/19/08)

Amazon.com's Recommendation Algorithm Applied to Life Events
By Maribeth Mooney (5/16/08)

Quién Es Caliente? Getting Your RateMyProfessors.com Chili Pepper
By John Warner (5/15/08)

Vegan Hikers Lost on Meatball Mountain Turn to Cannibalism
By David Henne (5/14/08)

Benjy Compson Seeks Directions to Waffle House
By Jimmy Chen (5/13/08)

Yogi Berra Is Deeper Than You Thought
By Rosser Clark (5/12/08)

The Magic 8 Ball Amended by My Mother for My Middle-School Years
By Kate Hahn (5/9/08)

The 32 Physical Characteristics of Randy, Who Is Not the Buddha but Evidently Looks Pretty Similar to Him
By Ben Greenman (5/8/08)

Word Problems for Future Hedge-Fund Managers
By Bob Woodiwiss (5/7/08)

Borges Teaches Self-Defense
By Susan Schorn (5/6/08)

Baby 2.0
By Ravi Mangla (5/5/08)

Youth Culture Findings
By Dan Kennedy (5/2/08)

It's Not You, Iraq—It's Me
By David Jaggard (5/1/08)

A Letter to Prince Regarding the Crying of Doves and the Fiasco That Resulted From the Presentation of a Speech on That Topic
By John Moe (4/30/08)

Acoustic Citizen
By Marco Kaye (4/29/08)

Conversations My Parents Must Have Had While Planning to Raise a Child
By Jen Statsky (4/28/08)

(IM)agna Carta
By Jason Rhode (4/25/08)

The Plight of the Suburban Deer
By G. Xavier Robillard (4/24/08)

Fragments From Polygamy! The Musical
By Ben Greenman (4/23/08)

First Drafts of the Parables of Jesus
By A.J. Packman (4/22/08)

John McCain Gives It to Me Straight
By Ellie Kemper (4/21/08)

The Berliner Ensemble Thanks You All
By Marcel Dzama (4/18/08)

The Catcher in the Retirement Home
By Teddy Wayne (4/17/08)

At My Power Seder Table
By Sigmund Stern (4/16/08)

Bomb Disposal: A Primer
By Jim Stallard (4/15/08)

Wall Text From My Home
By Graham T. Beck (4/14/08)

A Proposed Screenplay for Spider-Man 2
By Michael Chabon (4/11/08)

Selections From the Forthcoming Quantum Aesthetics: The Best of The American Journal of Physics' Music-Review Section
By Kevin Evers (4/10/08)

Film School in Three Lines or Less
By Ben Joseph (4/9/08)

Reviews of a Struggling Actor's First Three Bank Heists
By Matthew Summers-Sparks (4/8/08)

Other Dangerous Historical Events Hillary Clinton Experienced as First Lady
By Nick Ripatrazone (4/7/08)

The Most Dangerous Game: New Times, New Rules
By Ralph Gamelli (4/4/08)

Underground America
(4/3/08)

The Monroe Family Bed Wishes to Die
By John Jodzio (4/2/08)

Giants of Poetry
By Tyler Stoddard Smith (4/1/08)

Sisyphus Enters Analysis
By Jeff Albers (3/31/08)

Rules for "Stacey and the Hippies"
By Rocky Morrow (3/28/08)

On Behalf of Adam, Eve, and Humanity at Large
By Melanie Berliet (3/27/08)

Coach Barry Murphy's Inspirational Quotes (Lifetime Record: 14-91-1)
By Dirk Voetberg (3/26/08)

It's Not You, It's Your Uncontrollable Telekinesis
By Ben Joseph (3/25/08)

A Tired Teacher's Ideas for Classroom Projects
By Will Newman (3/24/08)

A 1980s Teen Sex Comedy Becomes Politically Uncomfortable
By Andrew Golden (3/21/08)

Ernest Hemingway Blogs About the Top Teams in College Basketball
By John Frank Weaver (3/20/08)

Real Historical Dolls: A Catalog
By Kathryn Higgins (3/19/08)

"I Spy" in Hell
By Adrian Chen (3/18/08)

The Focus Group's Transcript for My Prospective Garage Sale
By S. Craig Renfroe Jr. (3/17/08)

Midlife-Crisis Bible Stories
By Susan Schorn (3/14/08)

Eric Clapton's Censored Song List in North Korea
By Lionel Beehner (3/13/08)

Eleven Grievances
By James A.W. Shaw (3/12/08)

"Page Six" Gets Extremely Personal
By Teddy Wayne (3/11/08)

Selected Entries From The Encyclopedia of the 21st-Century American
By Chuck Adams (3/10/08)

You've Got to Watch The Wire
By Scott Blaszak (3/7/08)

Health Inspector's Report: Burger Time Restaurant and Fun Zone
By Andrew Bridgman (3/6/08)

Greeted at the Door
By Ben Greenman (3/5/08)

So You Want to Be President?: Scripts for Negative Political Advertisements Offered to the Candidates Free of Charge
By John Warner (3/4/08)

Observational Notes for the Veterinarian Regarding My Dog Hank
By Jon Methven (3/3/08)

Interviews With the Stars: Cell-Phone Pocket-Dial Edition
By Jory John and Mac Barnett (2/29/08)

Open-Mike Night, 1:15 A.M.
By Mike Sacks (2/28/08)

Great Mugging Escapes—No. 204: The War on Terror
By Pasha Malla (2/27/08)

Letter of Recommendation for Rick Stoeckel, Who Was Homeschooled
By Rick Stoeckel (2/26/08)

Maslow's Hierarchy of Sandwiches
By Andrew Neuendorf (2/25/08)

Abstinence-Only Driver's Ed
By Suzanne Kleid (2/22/08)

Isiah Thomas, Life Coach
By Jay Dyckman (2/21/08)

Worst Cave Scenario
By Mark D'Argenio (2/20/08)

The Later Adventures of David Addington Bear: Take Your Dad to Work Day
By Blair Becker (2/19/08)

A Guide to Scientific Expressions Used in Everyday Conversation
By Drew Piston (2/18/08)

The Sadomasochistic Fisherman Visits Pyramid Lake
By Michael Swaim (2/15/08)

Jonny's Legal Advisers Hereby Inform You of Jonny's Wish That You Enjoy a Happy Valentine's Day
By Jonny Waldman (2/14/08)

How to Cook an Impressive Dinner Using the Oven in Your New Apartment for the First Time
By Neil Janowitz (2/13/08)

My Ancestry Assignment
By Adam Sachs (2/12/08)

Everything Is Wrong With You: A Letter From Dr. Phil
By Wendy Molyneux (2/11/08)

Excerpts From The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook for People With Rocket Packs
By Kurt W. Rademacher (2/8/08)

Ashton Kutcher Fan Fiction: "The Middle School Dance" by Melissa Bell, Age 13
By Teddy Wayne (2/7/08)

The Best Policy
By Miles Klee (2/6/08)

Aesop's Fables Teach Children the Art of Voter Suppression
By Andrew Golden (2/5/08)

Mondays With Kafka
By Jimmy Chen (2/4/08)

Famous Authors Predict the Winner of Super Bowl XLII
By Shane Ryan (2/1/08)

How to Maximize Your Estate's Pain-and-Suffering Compensation for Your Inevitable Death in a Plane Crash
By Alison Espach (1/31/08)

The Invisible Man Is Innocent
By Ralph Gamelli (1/30/08)

Traveling Europe in Style With Auckland Dingiroo, Dark-Age Tourist and Critic of Food and Drink: Mystics, Hermits, and Prophets
By John Hallmann (1/29/08)

My Pet Peeves
By Dan Liebert (1/28/08)

Rilke's Letters to a Young Plumber
By Tyler Smith (1/25/08)

Announcing Arkansas
(1/24/08)

Werner Herzog as Guest Pundit on the VH1 Television Series Best Week Ever
By Michel Duchampbuffet (1/23/08)

A Family Member of a Henchman Killed by Jack Bauer on 24 Remembers
By John Moe (1/22/08)

Together in Perfect Harmony: An Earth Ball Laments the Distortions of Sean Hannity
By Ben Greenman (1/21/08)

Toward a Sustainable Margaritaville
By Matthew DuVerne Hutchinson (1/18/08)

The Girls of The Hills Visit Iraq
By Wendy Molyneux (1/17/08)

Candid New York City Rental Ads
By Brad Jacobson (1/16/08)

My Life, Rewritten as a Chinese Takeout Menu and Slipped, Unwanted, Under My Door
By Matt Marinovich (1/15/08)

More Truly Groundbreaking Copywriting
By Dan Kennedy (1/14/08)

The 4-Year-Old Finds Religion
By Ross Murray (1/11/08)

Instructions for the Proper Care and Feeding of the Chosen One
By Gregory Farley (1/10/08)

Ishmael the Comedian
By Teddy Wayne (1/9/08)

Excerpts From the Lost Mitchell Report
By Andrew Bridgman (1/8/08)

Staff Editorial From the Who-ville Picayune, January, 1958
By Robert Isenberg (1/7/08)

Whoops!
By Mike Sacks (1/4/08)

Jane Eyre Runs for President
By Sean Carman (1/3/08)

Production Rider for Kate Kershner's Holiday Visit Home Tour
By Kate Kershner (1/2/08)

Excerpts From My Rejected Script: Alien vs. Predator Save Christmas
By Ben Joseph (12/21/07)

Jesus Christ Decides He Doesn't Want to Celebrate His Birthday This Year
By Matt Bannish (12/20/07)

Jenna Bush's Book-Tour Diary of Hope
By Steve Almond (12/19/07)

How to Roll Out of a Moving Car
By Sarah Walker (12/18/07)

I Came, I Saw, I Said
By Jason Roeder (12/17/07)

The Catholic Church Moves Into the Information Age: A 21st-Century Confession
By John Frank Weaver (12/14/07)

Some Relatively Recent College Grads Discuss Their Maids
By Ellie Kemper (12/13/07)

Other Moments in a Soccer Player's Life
By Jamie Allen (12/12/07)

Prometheus Keeps a Diary
By Mike Richardson-Bryan (12/11/07)

Advanced Tai-Chi Exercises for the Modern World
By Colin Nissan (12/10/07)

Hot Chocolate Is the Loneliest Life
By Benjamin Cohen (12/7/07)

My Business Card Is a Ball of Putty
By Scott Blaszak (12/6/07)

Black Shoe Diary: The Daily Musings of Shuruku Umezawa: Junior Salesman, Ninja—Installment Four
By Eric Feezell (12/5/07)

Ezra Pound's Only Appearance on The Dating Game, Circa 1968
By Greg Purcell (12/4/07)

Workers'-Compensation Claim Filed by Curly Howard
By Adam Bozarth (12/3/07)

How to Be Like Me
By Tom McGlaughlin Jr. (11/30/07)

Two Medieval Physicians Debate Universal Health Care
By Blair Becker (11/29/07)

LinkedIn Invitation E-mail Copy Revised
By Dan Kennedy (11/28/07)

So, You Just Found Daddy's Meth Lab
By Daveo Mathias (11/27/07)

A Routine Traffic Stop Can Change Everything in an Instant
By Jim Stallard (11/26/07)

How Someone With an American Public-School Education Who Didn't Really Pay Much Attention in Class but Learned Just Enough to Pass Exams Imagines the First Thanksgiving
By Matt Passet (11/21/07)

Other Ways the Terrorists Win
By Justin Paul Villegas (11/20/07)

Referee Ed Hochuli's More Notable Calls
By Frank Ferri (11/19/07)

Surgery Is Easy
By Wendy Molyneux (11/16/07)

Ripple Effects of the Writers' Strike
By John Moe (11/15/07)

Traveling Europe in Style With Auckland Dingiroo, Dark-Age Tourist and Critic of Food and Drink: Commerce in Foreign Lands
By John Hallmann (11/14/07)

Halo 3 Cheat Codes, as Explained by Neglected Girlfriend Janet Iverson
By Andrew Kiraly (11/13/07)

Volleyball Is an Awesome Sport and Your Mother and I Are Getting a Divorce
By Peter Bognanni (11/12/07)

A Presidential-Campaign Speech That Will Help You Sweep the Popular Vote
By Adam Sachs (11/9/07)

Understanding Food Labels You Might Encounter at Whole Foods
By G. Xavier Robillard (11/8/07)

Memo to Imperial Advisers Re: Incident of the "New Clothes"
By Tom Greene (11/7/07)

A Robot Performs Standup Comedy to a Lackluster Response
By Michael Drucker (11/6/07)

The Believer 2007 Art Issue
(11/5/07)

On Community
By Ryan Mazer (11/2/07)

The Latke Who Couldn't Stop Screaming: A Christmas Story
By Lemony Snicket (11/1/07)

Signs Above My Halloween Candy: 1996–2006
By Zach Oberman (10/31/07)

An Eighth-Grader's Halloween-Costume Ideas Designed to Get Her in With the Popular Girls
By Emily Axford (10/30/07)

Punching Up the Script: Car Wash (1976)
By Dan Kennedy (10/29/07)

I Am Tired of Being Mistaken for a Golden-Rumped Lion Tamarin
By Dave DeFina (10/26/07)

Bobby Wolff's Recent Aces on Bridge Column as Played by My Father and His Three Siblings
By C.B. Haas (10/25/07)

Suggested Poses for Photo-Booth Pictures
By Ted Travelstead (10/24/07)

What Happened After I Lost My Guardian Angel: A Timeline
By Jon Methven (10/23/07)

Good News: A Seat on My Tandem Bicycle Just Opened Up
By Colin Nissan (10/22/07)

Calendar of Upcoming Events and Workshops for the Sean Oggie Institute
By Michael Kaplan (10/19/07)

A Letter From the U.S. Secretary of Education Regarding the Birth of Your First Child
By Chandler Dean (10/18/07)

This Cursed House
By Daniel Schifrin (10/17/07)

From the "Forum" Section of Welding Enthusiast Magazine
By Danny Wind (10/16/07)

About What Happened at the Carnival
By Jim Stallard (10/15/07)

Notes Passed Between Nations During the Secretary-General's Address to the U.N.
By Johnny McNulty (10/12/07)

Off-Duty Situations in Which an Officer of the Law Might Use His Fancy Police-Report Jargon to Impress People
By Jennifer Byrne (10/11/07)

Baltimore Boy Makes Good
(10/10/07)

How I'd Communicate My Feelings About Starbucks' Wi-Fi Policy If I Were a Soap Opera Writer, a Hollywood Screenwriter, a Sci-Fi Writer, a Playwright, or an E-mail Writer
By Jamie Allen (10/9/07)

The Neurotic Pickup Artist
By Frank Ferri (10/8/07)

A Few Years After the Complete Collapse of the Global Economy, a Consumer Reporter Reviews the iPhone
By Matthew DuVerne Hutchinson (10/5/07)

Orc Alumni Notes
By Nathaniel Missildine (10/4/07)

A Subtextual Reading of Your High-School French Textbook
By Sarah Smallwood (10/3/07)

We're Huge in Europe
By Teddy Wayne (10/2/07)

An Intraoffice Flier Announcing That the Company Is Having a Jellybean-Counting Contest for Its Employees
By John Frank Weaver (10/1/07)

The Dragon-Free Butterscotch FAQ
By Jeremy Richards (9/28/07)

Midterm Exam on Kelly, the Woman With Whom My Husband Had an Affair
By Susan Schorn (9/27/07)

My Therapist Goes to Dinner
By Matt Passet (9/26/07)

Trouble Report From the GUSSSSB (Government of the United States Secret Smithsonian Storage Building)
By Andrew Bridgman (9/25/07)

Trailer for the Beer-oes Season 1 DVD Release
By Michael J. Weingarth (9/24/07)

I'm 16 and Ready to Cope With Prostate Disease
By Mike Fowler (9/21/07)

The Conflicted History of the Wave, Part Two
By Michael Rottman (9/20/07)

A Different Kind of Company
By Barrett Brown (9/19/07)

Rules for My Cuddle Party
By Mike Sacks (9/18/07)

Thomas Kinkade's Experimental Period
By Jeremiah Tucker (9/17/07)

Troubleshooting Guide for TimeCorp's VH3928-Model Time Machine
By Jonathan Baude and J. Alex Boyd (9/14/07)

A Small Box of Very Short Stories
(9/13/07)

I See No Other Option Than to Resign as Emily Dickinson's Rap-Battle Coach
By Tyler Smith (9/12/07)

Welcoming Remarks Made at a Literary Reading, 9/25/01
By John Hodgman (9/11/07)

For Whom the Whistle Blows: A Physical-Education Instructor Contemplates His Own Mortality
By Emily Axford (9/10/07)

LSAT Practice
By Shaun Spalding (9/7/07)

Custer's Last Letter
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