But is Fifty Shades really an example of "literary art" finding success through the internet? One could make the argument that it's content is closer to pornography than anything else—not that there's anything wrong with that, but you wouldn't cite online porn as an example of vibrant online culture. Or another way to…

In the past cities were good incubators for young literary talent because they allowed young creatives to find each other and exchange ideas and even compete with one another. If cities are unaffordable and writers have to live in less populated places it's less likely they'll find like minded writers (or any writers)…

I think it holds for writing very well. Your examples of the movements of Cubism and Constructivism show that new art is often in conversation with the old. It's like the idea that if you have an issue with a work of art, you should make a better one. Older books can only confront the time they were written or the…

Not Volume 23, though. That one's racist as hell.

The people who run advice columns usually have access to the actual names of the people who write in.

I don't understand why think the finale should have been Shirley vs. Stephanie. I thought Stephanie was as inconsistent as Nick and not on par with either Shirley or Nina. I would have had the same reaction to a Stephanie win as a Nick win against either Shirley or Nina: i.e. boy, I didn't see that coming.

They're reversing the formula. Instead of surrounding an unlikable protagonist with likable friends, they'll be surrounding a likable protagonist with a bunch of Ted Mosbys.

Which is why it's a bit of a missed opportunity that WH wasn't the one to interview him.

Also, Schreiber is renowned for his performances of Shakespeare. I saw him as MacBeth in a Shakespeare in the Park production and his was in a whole 'nother league from every other performance.

The merger between this talk show and that shark.

I made this for public television, but they told me it was stupid and grossly inaccurate.

A shark on whiskey is mighty risky. A shark on beer is a beer engineer!

Don't you people understand? Shia Labeouf is an actor to his very core. It's his calling to sincerely deliver the words of others.

I can understand why they would want to avoid calling themselves activists, but I think that the only reason to avoid seeming to be voicing a personal point of view is to have your integrity questioned through being labeled by others. I don't want Jon Stewart to become what he would think of as an activist, but I…

Get out of here with your activist definitions.

Isn't "activist" just used as another pejorative label? You only get called an activist by someone who thinks your partisan beliefs have led you to make an incorrect decision or voice an incorrect position.

The problem I have with Stewart calling himself a comedian is that it buys into the idea that people's labels disqualify them from being taken too seriously. "Journalist" is one such label which has been so sullied by a conservative propaganda campaign that it's now practically a slur for Republican voters. We don't…

I think that he is so consistently partisan because there are actually very few voices in the media standing up to the conservative economic agenda. If he were to compromise himself he would just be another voice giving in to the austerity crowd, which goes against every fiber of his career as an economist. Both sides…