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

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  2. Friday Bargain Bin with Jane Marie!

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  3. Begin the thawing of Jim Nabors.

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  4. Link Roundup!

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

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  5. You heard the ladies!

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  6. They don't have to be celebrity memoirs, and in fact more often than not I'd prefer they not be. The best trashy memoir is petty and willing to dish about everything – if they don't name names, they let you fill in the blanks easily enough – and tells you things you want to believe are true, even if they can't possibly be.

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  7. Alexander Hamilton was America’s first Secretary of the Treasury, founded the New York Post, and invented rap in 1776.

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  8. Link Roundup!

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

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  9. How do you solve a problem like a lack of throw pillows?

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  10. HE'S just SO hard to SHOP for.

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  11. Rebecca Turkewitz explores her own and other readers' fascination with the real places in which fictional literary works are set.

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  12. "Normal feelings, or blood feelings?" "...Normal feelings."

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