1. The Toast's weekly Friday open thread, hosted by The Bartender.

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  2. The Toast's only poetry advice columnist offers some guidance to a late bloomer.

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  3. Jessica Doyle on the promise of canonical Kimber/Stormer in the new Jem and the Holograms comic book series.

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  4. Link Roundup!

    A link roundup of delightful information from across the Internet.

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  5. Elusive Aurora

    The author on her lifelong dream of seeing the aurora borealis, and the ways in which nature, however beautiful, can disappoint.

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  6. Aimee Nezhukumatathil takes a look at a very creepy little insect with a misleadingly cute name in her new World of Wonder column for The Butter.

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  7. WHY. WHAT. YES. WHY THOUGH. BUT YES?

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  8. Stacy Hackner on what her work in bioarchaeology has taught her about bone health.

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  9. This is pretty much the Boxcar Children, which is disappointingly a book about small humans, and not newborn trains.

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  10. Link Roundup!

    The Toast presents a selection of delightful information in the form of a link roundup.

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  11. When her sister ran away from home, the author thought she had been left to face her fears all alone.

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  12. Scenes from the collected works of Sylvia Plath, from someone who has barely read her.

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  13. mensah demary considers Kendrick Lamar's "To Pimp a Butterfly" in his Liner Notes column for The Butter.

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