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6 Edgar Allan Poe-Inspired Ways to Spend Halloween
High School As Explained in Horror Novels
QUIZ: Is This Quote from YA Lit or a Classic Novel?
QUIZ: Is This Quote from YA Lit or a Classic Novel?
QUIZ: Which High School Trope Should You Date?
QUIZ: Is This College Class Real or Fake?
QUIZ: What’s the Literary Theme of Your Life?
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classic lit
The Great Gatsby, Summed Up in Pop Songs
The Great Gatsby is a fine story, but it would be even better if it were told in the form of song lyrics. Am I right, or am I right? Sure, the prose is elegant. …
classic lit
6 Edgar Allan Poe-Inspired Ways to Spend Halloween
If you think your Halloween plans are already sufficiently spooky, THINK AGAIN. Let me guess—a costume you cobbled together at the last minute, a bowl of off-brand candy corn, maybe a scary movie or two …
classic lit
High School As Explained in Horror Novels
There are many things commonly agreed upon to be Very Scary. That’s why our shelves are just chock full of horror novels about demons, clowns, and sometimes demon clowns (looking at you, Stephen King’s It). …
book related
QUIZ: Is This Quote from YA Lit or a Classic Novel?
You’ve been reading classic literature ever since your teacher assigned To Kill a Mockingbird in seventh grade, and you’ve been reading young adult novels since forever. I mean, that BASICALLY makes you an expert on …
classic lit
The 7 Most Messed-Up Short Stories We All Had to Read in School
There’s no feeling quite like the feeling you get when your teacher slaps a short story down in front of you in the middle of October. It’s an ominous feeling. A feeling of dread. I …
who are you?
QUIZ: Which High School Trope Should You Date?
Dating is hard, especially when you’re a fictional high school student and all your peers are overused plot devices. Will you find love with the bad boy? The class clown? The mysterious new kid who’s …
classic lit
17 Truly Creepy Quotes from Literature
Some people enjoy being spooked, but me? I only like to be sort of spooked. You know, semi-spooked. Just barely spooked. I won’t, for example, watch a scary movie, but I WILL read the summary …
shakespeare
Everything I Know About Dating, I Learned from Romeo and Juliet
People will say, “But Elodie, Romeo and Juliet was supposed to be a cautionary tale, not a romantic how-to guide.” And I hear you. I do. But how do you explain the fact that I …
college 101
QUIZ: Is This College Class Real or Fake?
College is amazing—not just because you get to wear sweatpants for four glorious years, but also because you can take classes called things like “Wasting Time on the Internet” or “The Joy or Garbage” and …
classic lit
How to Tell If You’re Dating a Plot Device
Dating can be pretty dicey. Sometimes your significant other turns out to be a jerk, or a nutjob, or a plot mechanism specifically devised to move the story forward. Now, those first two things are …