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10 years ago @ The Toast - Link Roundup! · 3 replies · +8 points

As a literary agent (who sometimes reads upwards of 50 queries a day), I don't think I pay any attention at all to an author's gender when I am deciding to reject or request. Maybe my subconscious is up to tricksy things, but honestly, I generally skim the letter and jump straight to the material anyway. If I like what I've read, THEN I'll hope back up to the letter to get a fuller picture.

Just having some trouble fully believing this George experiment truly being a marker of the real picture. THIS, however, I fully support: https://medium.com/@kelliagodon/submit-like-a-man...

10 years ago @ The Toast - Very Specific Burns · 0 replies · +7 points

I grew up on Arlo and his version of this song...I...I had no idea it was someone else's first. I'll love him forever, though.

10 years ago @ The Toast - Jaya Catches Up: Julie... · 2 replies · +23 points

Also, it always makes me think of two other favorites: ISLAND OF THE BLUE DOLPHINS because girl getting stranded alone and surviving and eating weird things and befriending canines and wearing cormorant feathers and THE ENDLESS STEPPE because very cold.

10 years ago @ The Toast - Jaya Catches Up: Julie... · 3 replies · +6 points

Wow, I know that this was always on my list of favorite books as a kid, but I am only realizing now that I have no actual recollection of what it was about. I read both the other books in this series, too, and same.

10 years ago @ The Toast - The Random Penguins: T... · 3 replies · +21 points

I like the assertion that the vomit of live sharks is infinitely grosser than the vomit of dead ones.

10 years ago @ The Toast - The Pitch Meeting for ... · 0 replies · +11 points

I stayed later at work than necessary to read this. I am not disappointed.

10 years ago @ The Toast - Dirtbag Louis XIV · 0 replies · +56 points

SAY IT IN HORSE.

10 years ago @ The Toast - The Best Ingredients A... · 0 replies · +16 points

I CANNOT EXPRESS HOW PLEASED I AM THAT YOU MENTIONED THE FETAL PIG SMELL.

My locker was next to the bio lab where the fetal pigs were dissected every year for all four years of high school. IT IS NOT AN ODOR I WILL SOON FORGET.

10 years ago @ The Toast - Your Dad is Still Your... · 0 replies · +7 points

This was lovely.

10 years ago @ The Toast - Life Is Already Pretty... · 0 replies · +15 points

I can't hear or read "James Buchanan," without immediately thinking "LAME DUCK., LAME DUCK PRESIDENT." One of the key facts I remember school.

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