Top 10sNational short story prizeAhead of 2017’s National short story prize, Jon McGregor reluctantly chooses ‘swoony’ work from recent years showing some of the ways to write them well
This summer, I read the entries for this year’s BBC National short story prize, and discussed with my fellow judges the vexed question of how the “best” might be identified.
This was both a pleasure and a serious challenge: the form of the story is so capacious and diverse that at times we were comparing apples and pears, or at least looking at an unfamiliar fruit and arguing over whether to call it an apple or a pear. Read More...
Redeem now This video shows the removal of an ingrown hair that's masquerading as a blackhead.It's just awesome. The best pimple popping videos are the ones that surprise you.
This YouTube clip uploaded on Monday — and later reshared on the /r/popping subreddit — is just that kind of video.
It starts with a man using a comedone extractor on his cheek, attempting to remove what looks like a blackhead. But 30 seconds in, he switches to a tweezer. Read More...
Jon and Kate Plus 8 matriarch, Kate Gosselin‘s parenting has been brought into question recently as one of her sextuplets, Collin Gosselin, opened up about being institutionalized by his mother when he was only 12 years old. Kate’s leaked journal from 2005-2007 sheds more light on Jon and Kate’s life behind the scenes. Here are the three most disturbing passages from Kate’s journal where she admits to abusing her son, Collin, when he was just a toddler. Read More...