Tuesday, May 25th, 2010
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The Awl In Your Internet Mailbox!

Kathleen Kelly, owner of a mom and pop children's bookstore, is having an affair. Although she's with Frank Navasky, a well-known journalist and man about town, she betrays him by secretly and anonymously corresponding with aman whom she met in an AOL chat room. Then, suddenly, her world starts to crumble around her, her business gets endangered by the opening of monolithic Fox Books discount store right around the corner. She meets Joe Fox, the young hotshot son of the owner, and immediately does not like him or his arrogant way of managing business matters. Naturally she turns to her anonymous e-mail friend for advice, he recommends that she close down her store. Things really start to heat up for the pair when Fox learns that his anonymous mail-pal is none other than his professional nemesis Kathleen Kelly. Hilarity and romance ensue.Remember last year (seriously, the last one was in June of 2009) when we were sending out an e-mail newsletter that delivered all sorts of tidbits from Choire and Alex's brains into your inboxes (and hearts)? Well, a few months later than we promised we would, we're doing the newsletter things once again! Just go here and sign up for our mailing list to read their musings on all sorts of fun topics! We've already done two this week! One about 'zines and the other about wives!

31 Comments / Post A Comment

mathnet (#27)

Hilarious alt-text?

alison (#14)

and romantic!

mathnet (#27)

I don't remember receiving bits of Balk's brains. Did that happen?

theheckle (#621)

It turns out it's illegal to send national treasures by first class mail.

HiredGoons (#603)

I still haven't gotten one. Then again I'm illiterate so I suppose it's one-less email you have to write and I have to graphically deceipher.

(my roommate and coworkers do all my comments for me)

deepomega (#1,720)

Do you have a keyboard with rebuses on the keys?

lululemming (#409)

Me neither!

portmanteautally (#1,015)

me neither. Sigh…

HiredGoons (#603)

Okay, that image – where's Bookish with my Quaalude?

C_Webb (#855)

Why does Tom Hanks have John Turturro's forehead?

deepomega (#1,720)

Gypsy cure.

deepomega (#1,720)

AGH. Curse! Clearly I must have accidentally pointed at a gypsy crone, causing her to curse my fingers with poor typing abilities.

Yay, the newsletter is back!

By the way, when I come into town for the meetup next month, I think I may stay at the Trump SoHo™ New York, which brings a new perspective of Manhattan from its 391 guest rooms.

Don't know why I mentioned that … it just popped into my head.

brent_cox (#40)

I guess I should enable images.

David Cho (#3)

Click everything on the Awl newsletter and Awl website please.

Bittersweet (#765)

There's no spyware or anything in the ads, right Cho? I'm a little paranoid after near-laptop destruction last year…

brent_cox (#40)

Or at least is it witty and engaging spyware?

David: Done!

hockeymom (#143)

So now we can say "I'd like to subscribe to your newsletter" and not mean it in a Deadspin commenter sort of way?

HiredGoons (#603)

"I do not want literature about your organization."

BadUncle (#153)

Do you guys do wake-up calls?

deepomega (#1,720)

Next up: podcasts!

BadUncle (#153)

And Tweets! It's more 2.0 than they can control.

irishbreakfast (#4,123)

Hell no. Next up: the death of the auto-refresh! Prioritize, please.

cherrispryte (#444)

1) Was I supposed to be sending you guys a newsletter? Cause seriously, don't tempt me.

2) I find it hilarious that your advertisers think I have enough money to stay at the Trump Soho.

Art Yucko (#1,321)

Cho,
please try to avoid tossing it into my bird-bath. Also, keep your wagon wheels the fuck off my grass.

I would just like to applaud Cho and his mad ad-selling skillz for making my dreams again come true. Thanks, Cho!

DoctorDisaster (#1,970)

Is there a checkbox somewhere so we can tie it to our profiles?

nicole (#2,443)

i would just like to say, yay!

bronwyn (#3,351)

What, you guys get Trump ads? No fair. I'm going to put adblocker back on until I get those too.

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