1. Toast Points: a selection of popular and notable posts from the past week.

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

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  3. Link Roundup!

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

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  4. It's all in the title, really. Cannonballs. Your screenplay needs more of them.

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  5. Nicole presents a pedantic guide to how to make her life that tiny bit easier when you submit work to her.

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  6. Just like humans, elephant societies have a highly sophisticated way of withholding physical affection from each other.

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  7. The return of the world's nerdiest book game, in which Library of Congress subject keywords are the only help you get.

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  8. The Criterion Collection presents a theme.

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  9. If you're trapped in a Dashiell Hammett novel, this piece can help you out.

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  10. In the newest installment of Gal Science, a physics postdoc attempts to explain what the heck is it she actually does every day.

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  11. Link Roundup!

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

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  12. Lost and Found

    "Lost and Found," a short story by Vanessa Willoughby.

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  13. Katherine Rundell talks about how she learned tightrope walking, and all the women on wire who came before her.

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  14. Kevin Sharp and Jason Katzenstein present some little-known gossip column work from the great H.P. Lovecraft.

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  15. This week Downton Abbey talks -- and doesn't talk -- about the war.

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