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'I Was Told There'd Be Cake' Author a Chick, Doesn't Write Chick Lit
Filed under: Video, Required Reading, Asylum Exclusive, Drinks With Writers If you're the type of guy who's attracted to women sporting equal parts wit and intelligence, then Sloane Crosley is your...
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Hitchens Warns of American-Born Jihad, Painful Brazilian Waxing
Filed under: Video, Required Reading, Asylum Exclusive, Drinks With Writers "Author," "journalist," "contrarian," "Antichrist" -- whatever you call Christopher Hitchens, he's one of the most...
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Bill Clegg Discusses Drug-Fueled Fall From Grace and Comeback
Filed under: Required Reading, News, Asylum Exclusive Bill Clegg was supposed to die five years ago. He reached rock bottom, addicted to crack cocaine, the drug that plagued poor, inner-city...
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'Simpsons,' 'I Love You, Beth Cooper' Writer Talks New Book, Slams DeVito
Filed under: Entertainment, Video, Required Reading, Asylum Exclusive, Drinks With Writers Larry Doyle's debut novel "I Love You, Beth Cooper" offered up a hilariously tumultuous night in the life of...
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Worst Writer-Award Winner Disgusts With Sexy Rodent Metaphor
Filed under: Required Reading, Weird It's a writing award that most authors would want to avoid. However, novelist Molly Ringle found a silver lining in being the 28th annual recipient of the...
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'Absurdistan' Author Pens Hilarious New Book That Predicts Economic Collapse
Filed under: Entertainment, Video, Required Reading, Asylum Exclusive, Drinks With Writers Like all good satirists, Gary Shteyngart takes the absolute worst things about the world and makes them funny....
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'Mr Ed -- Dead' Book Collects the Funniest Fictional Obits
Filed under: Humor, Required Reading, Photos Death can sometimes be funny -- like in Quentin Tarantino films when someone's head gets chopped off by a samurai sword and a fountain of blood starts...
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Being Big -- 'Body Shop' Author Reminisces on the Power of Muscle
Filed under: Sex, Fitness, Required Reading, Asylum Exclusive Paul Solotaroff was just another scrawny college freshman in the mid-1970s when he discovered lifting weights and steroids, a period he...
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'Furgles,' 'Fumbs' and 'Nonversations' -- The Weird World of 'Nonwords'
Filed under: Required Reading, Weird Know your "fumb" from your "freegan"? Chances are you don't. Why? Well, they're "nonwords" -- words that don't actually exist, according to the Oxford English...
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The Great Typo Hunt -- Two Friends Correct Grammar Across the USA
Filed under: Required Reading, Weird, Asylum Exclusive, Travel Everyone has their grammatical pet peeves. At Asylum, for example, we've made our feelings about some forms of punctuation quite clear....
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SNL Writer Simon Rich Talks New Novel, How He Does It Live on Saturday Night
Filed under: Video, Required Reading, TV, Asylum Exclusive, Drinks With Writers The novel "Elliot Allagash" offers a titular antagonist who might be one of the most deviant, soulless monsters ever...
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Wonder Woman's Dirty Past -- How Polyamory Birthed the First Female Superhero
Filed under: Sex, Required Reading, Weird Stuff, Asylum Exclusive Besides being associated with outsize sexiness worldwide, Wonder Woman has also become synonymous with the idea of female power. In...
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Awful Library Books for Men and Boys
Filed under: Humor, Required Reading, Weird, Asylum Exclusive History can be hilarious! Consider words with meanings that have changed over time (remember when "gay" meant happy, like "Grandmother is...
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Amazing Life of Bozo the Clown Includes Astronaut Training, Cannibals
Filed under: Entertainment, Celebrity, Required Reading, TV, Asylum Exclusive digg_url = 'http://www.asylum.com/2010/08/24/-bozo-the-clown-the-man-behind-the-nose-cannibals-astronaut-president/';...
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Pulp History Tells True Stories Minus Boring Parts, Plus Pictures
Filed under: Entertainment, Required Reading, News As fans of both the pulp tradition and history, we're excited that Simon & Schuster has launched its Pulp History imprint, which features...
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'Good Ideas' Author Discusses 9/11 Snafu, How to Trigger Eureka Moments
Filed under: Video, Required Reading, Asylum Exclusive, Drinks With Writers Cartoons illustrate a good idea as a lightbulb turning on in one's brain -- a moment of light and clarity that appears out of...
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A Prison Librarian on Pimps, Books and Making Friends On the Inside
Filed under: Entertainment, Required Reading, News, Asylum Exclusive For most men contemplating a career that will bring them into a fascinating world full of interesting conflicts and populated by...
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'Star Wars Art -- Visions' Blows Our Freakin' Minds With Geek Art
Filed under: Highbrow, Required Reading, Movies, Asylum Exclusive If you're doing your Christmas shopping early this year, you'll want to go ahead and pick up copies of "Star Wars Art: Visions" for...
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Who Was the Real Al Capone?
Filed under: Entertainment, Required Reading, Asylum Exclusive Are we the only ones watching "Boardwalk Empire" and thinking that Al Capone comes off as sort of a wimp? When is this guy gonna get, you...
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Get the Whole Story With 'Better Book Titles'
Filed under: Humor, Required Reading Any avid reader (both of us) will tell you that books are long. Sometimes you get all the way to the end of one only to realize you didn't even like it! Wouldn't it...
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