The English alphabet has ever been the center of the American literary universe — the letters of Whitman, of Edith Wharton, of every poorly-spelled happy hour chalkboard in Greenwich Village — and though the legendary set of graphemes has lost a little edge and a lot of grime what with all the crazy texting the kids do today, it is still creative fodder for countless contemporary writers, even the ones who have figured out that if you do graphic novels you have to write like 75% less.

As you may have heard, one of the alphabet's most legendary letters, Q, recently announced that since he was only appreciated in Scrabble [...]

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Monkey buffet festival slideshow!

I wanted to know, for reasons that escaped me mere moments later, what Details might possibly have chosen for their list of "The 25 Greatest Gen X Books of All Time." (I think it was because the "of all time" part amused me.) Unfortunately for all of us, when I clicked through from a friend's Twitter, I found their list was horrifically organized as one-book-per-page slideshow. (The "show" of those slides consisted, of course, of pictures of the book covers.) Fortunately, their SEO desires undid them, to my benefit.

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To be fair, I was hard on the life of the sexless straight man this morning, so let us also consider the horrible, sad breakups of the gays, regarding which you should really watch this slideshow about the semi-dissolution of property just as a gay marriage is aborted. The wedding became an awkward party! And their breakup is very diffuse! One gay was mad at the other gay about his blog? And they were both being "mean" to each other? I don't know….