sunday short stack

"Of all the animals, man is the only one that is cruel. He is the only one that inflicts pain for the pleasure of doing it." - Mark Twain

• I don't know why, but I really want to see The Last Exorcism. Here, i09 offers some infamous cases of real life possessions.
• Beautiful: 40 Vintage Magazine Covers
• 20 Authors Who Died Under 40
• Paste's 50 Best Albums of the Decade
• Subtitle-O-Matic
• I always thought ballet was sort of sinister: the trailer for Darren Aronofsky's Black Swan
• Top 10 Forgotten Pulitzer Prize-Winning Novels
• When book recommendations go wrong...
• And also from The Guardian, a weird words quiz
• 17 Literary Journals That Might Survive the Internet

the way you play your game ain't fair

et ce n'est pas fini!

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sunday short stack

"There are years that ask questions, and years that answer." - Zora Neale Hurston

• Can you judge a book by its cover?
• The 50 Best Fictional Bands
• If you liked If Movie Titles Were Honest... a few weeks ago, you'll love Better Book Titles.
• A Dozen of Literature's Greatest Jerks
• David Mitchell on the internets: Bookworm, Bat Segundo, and The Millions
• This is sort of fascinating: 25 Songs About Outdated Technology
• There are some things English wordsmiths just can't describe.
• Album Covers as IKEA Catalog Pages
• Who knew? 50 Must-See French Horror Films