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Thought Catalog Books presents “Seeds Planted In Concrete” by Bianca Sparacino, available here.

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The Comprehensive ENFP Survival Guide

By Heidi Priebe

FUN FACT: I wrote a book! 

When I first discovered the MBTI, I fell in love with learning about my type. I’m a textbook ENFP and delving into the cognitive functions only made me that much more sure of how my mind worked. 

But here’s the beef I’ve always had with the Myers-Briggs community: It is ceaselessly rose-coloured. I wanted to know not just who I was as an ENFP, but how I could grow, develop, change and thrive through understanding my personality type. 

Unfortunately, a development-based guide for ENFPs did not seem to exist anywhere.

So after years of research, I wrote one. And now it’s available here: 

Amazon: http://read.ag/1USQRTA

or here

iBooks: http://read.ag/1KcTniv

Because THE WORLD NEEDS MORE FROM US, CHAMPIONS! 

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Thought Catalog Books presents: Author’s Night Wednesday, June 24 at 7pm / FREE Free drinks, generously provided by TC Books

The great folks at thoughtcatalog are joining us next week for their AUTHOR’S NIGHT! Ryan O’Connell, author of the newly released I’m Special, will host the evening that includes literary fiction to memoir to stand-up comedy. With Robert Yune, Mike Heppner, Lance Pauker, Melanie Berliet, and Shanon Cook. There will be FREE DRINKS!

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Tomorrow, tomorrow, tomorrow!

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Simon Critchley 20150428 Brooklyn

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Molly McAleer’s Memoir Will Ruin Your Life (In A Good Way)

Co-founder of HelloGiggles and former screenwriter for “2 Broke Girls,” Molly McAleer’s debut book The Alcoholic Bitch Who Ruined Your Life…

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4:30 A.M.: “Suicide,” with Simon Critchley, professor at the New School for Social Research. Opener: “I promised that I would be in a fully intoxicated condition when I gave this talk, and I fulfilled that promise.” Bottom line: life indeed worth living. Concludes with Virginia Woolf (of all people), beautiful passage from “To the Lighthouse,” Mrs. Ramsay’s reverie: She had known happiness, exquisite happiness, intense happiness, and it silvered the rough waves a little more brightly, as daylight faded, and the blue went out of the sea and it rolled in waves of pure lemon which curved and swelled and broke upon the beach and the ecstasy burst in her eyes and waves of pure delight raced over the floor of her mind and she felt, It is enough! It is enough!

The New Yorker http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/05/11/all-nighter 

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The Tracking of A Russian Spy exhibits the harrowing consequences that can emerge when love, or something like it, intersects with modern-day espionage. Swenson details the perplexing set of events that follow his encounter with a beautiful stranger in a dusky New York City nightclub. The woman in question is Katya and as the two grow closer Swenson wonders whether there might be more to this woman than she lets on. His suspicions are only confirmed when, in the summer of 2010, Katya disappears after the arrest of ten Russian Americans charged with spying for the Kremlin, one of whom is the now infamous Anna Chapman. In search for answers that have occupied him for more than two years, Swenson makes a sojourn to Moscow where the account of a relationship cut short emerges as a panoramic take on high-tech espionage, Soviet "closed cities", ongoing vestiges of the Cold War, and, perhaps, the ways in which secrets and attractions exist in a pervasively networked world. http://thoughtcatalog.com/book/the-tracking-of-a-russian-spy/

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“It was after reading her non-narrative that I realized the traditional novel form could never suit my writing needs.”

One Question with Mink Choi

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Everything I Need to Know in Life I Learned from Joss Whedon by Valerie E. Frankel http://read.ag/1aZ6AAa 

Joss Whedon has much to teach his fans, as he unfurls epics of sacrifice and heroism for superheroes and ordinary people. Firefly, like Alien: Resurrection, was his anti-authoritarian dystopia, while Buffy the Vampire Slayer emphasized girl power and individuality in a world of monsters. Dollhouse tackled identity, memory and the soul, reaching from fantasy into philosophy, just as The Cabin in the Woods satirized the nebulous "Greater Good." Now, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. and The Avengers explore heroism, teamwork, and personal responsibility. Whedon has independent works too, all explored from the paranormal romance film In Your Eyes to his feminist skits for Equality Now. In comics, such as X-Men, Runaways, Sugarshock, and Buffy, he explores unconventional teams and chosen families. From Angel's quest for faith and redemption in a world of nihilism to the smaller stories of family and friendships in The Office, Glee, Parenthood, and Roseanne, not to mention Much Ado About Nothing, Whedon offers lessons to improve the world and our roles within it. This book compares themes, motifs, and archetypes across all his works, teasing out the common threads and the messages within.

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Our whole generation is under the delusion that our careers are meant to be satisfying joy rides and that if we settle for anything less, we’ve failed. I’m not one for settling, but I also don’t consider having a steady paycheck for a few years at a dead-end job settling as long as you are actively pursuing your better self. Maybe it’s finding that “passion job.” Maybe it’s learning the violin. Maybe it’s teaching your son to be a great man and a better feminist. Jobs are not all there is in this life. You can stay optimistic by staying realistic, by remembering not every day will be the best, by knowing that no good thing ever came from complaining, by knowing that if there were never any bumps in the road, you would fall asleep at the wheel.

Kelton Wright, Anonymous Asked http://read.ag/1OPJ8Cw 

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I wasn’t a drug addict. I was just a guy who couldn’t stop doing drugs.

Jason Smith, The Bitter Taste of Dying http://read.ag/1HxGbI6

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Copy editor Mary Norris explains “lay,” “lie,” “laid,” and “lain”—and what Bob Dylan got wrong.

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“I’m crazy sometimes, I swear I am.” - Michael James in MAGPIE (2015)

http://read.ag/1IReo2j

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It is indeed becoming more and more difficult, even senseless, for me to write an official English. And more and more my own language appears to me like a veil that must be torn apart in order to get at the things, or the Nothingness, behind it. Grammar and Style— to me they seem to have become as irrelevant as a Victorian bathing suit or the imperturbability of a true gentleman. A mask. Let us hope the time will come when language is most efficiently used where it is being most efficiently misused. As we cannot eliminate language all at once, we should at least leave nothing undone that might contribute to its falling into disrepute. To bore one hole after another in it, until what lurks behind it (be it something or nothing) begins to seep through: I cannot imagine a higher goal for a writer today.

David Shields  (via quotecatalog)

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"Moving and darkly comic....Equal parts hilarity and heartbreak in an accomplished debut." –Kirkus Reviews

Available for preorder http://read.ag/1Dc4Crk

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Dying wouldn’t be the worst thing, I thought. But I really want a glass of wine.

Danielle Sinay in “Beverly Pills and Other Related Traumas”

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I am a tower  that never goes  down.

Calvero in “i won’t be happy until the sun is unhappy”