What a great time to sign up. You remember, this ol' thing we talked about last week?

Let's talk about incredible things that AREN'T free, shall we?

1. Tickets to Lin-Manuel Miranda's musical, Hamilton.

I'm gonna level with you. I am CONSTANTLY burdened with feelings of inadequacy when I think about the University of Iowa's legendary Writers' Workshop. Everyone who was better than me in my creative writing seminars in college went to Iowa, and now they have written real books and stuff, instead of just owning a feminist humor site that is read by 99% of librarians and archivists in New England. This is Iowa, as far as…

We hope you'll enjoy this excerpt from Rebecca Dinerstein's debut novel The Sunlit Night as much as we did.

Lynn Lurie is the author of Corner of the Dead, winner of the 2007 Juniper Prize for Fiction, University of Massachusetts Press (2008) and Quick Kills, Etruscan Press. We recently had a delightful conversation about her writing, which I am happy to share with you. You can read Part I of our conversation here. Quick Kills (and Corner of the Dead, for that matter) resonated so much for me with the experience…

Lynn Lurie is the author of Corner of the Dead, winner of the 2007 Juniper Prize for Fiction, University of Massachusetts Press (2008) and Quick Kills, Etruscan Press. We recently had a delightful conversation about her writing, which I am happy to share with you. I'm sure you're asked to talk about the framing of Quick Kills often, so I apologize if it's become tedious, but the use of vignettes and the ordering…

React Mobile is a personal safety app that acts like a blue-light emergency phone you can carry in your pocket. You can use it to stay in touch with friends and family, update specific contacts with your location, and discreetly call for help. Who could have used ReactMobile: Victims of the London Beer Flood Update: Heading home from work. Track my progress using my phone's GPS. Update: A 135,000-gallon vat of beer has erupted, destroying…

Disclaimer: This post is sponsored by diet soda. Which one? Yes. Are you drinking enough diet soda? A new study reveals the disturbing truth: No. you are not. Here, have a diet soda. Put some in your mouth, then swallow it when you're done tasting it. Tastes good, right? Tastes like bubbles. It's normal and good. Studies show, diet soda? It's real good for you. We gave some diet soda to a bunch of mice. Bunch of…