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Humor Very Real Email Disclaimers
"The sender of this message and any attached documents expects a reply from the intended recipient. The sender gets that the recipient is 'very busy.'"
Advice Dear Businesslady: How Do I Do Right By My Coworker?
The Toast's job advice columnist on how best to help an alcoholic coworker and manage/mentor a young employee.
Advice Aunt Acid: Advice for Dealing with People You Can’t Stand
Aunt Acid, The Toast's advice columnist, counsels readers on how to deal with impossible people.
Beauty Intoxicating Women: Travels in Gin and Gender
Siobhan Phillips on the making and marketing of gin, women distillers, and historical anxieties regarding women and alcohol.
Family Widowmaker: My Father’s Dance with Death
Kayla Smith on her beloved dad's obsession with trucks, motorcycles, pushing the limits, and his family.
Feminism Women Who Cook: Dismantling the Myth of the Bitch in the Kitchen
Lilian Min on female professional chefs, amateur cooks, and the world in which they work.
Family My Mother, the Doula
Carly Lane considers her mother's job as a doula and her role in the lives of the mothers she supports.
The Butter Anyone Who Misses Anything Can Work Hard and Fast to Return to the Dead
Maya Weeks on gender, labor, and quitting as insurrection.
Work A Day in the Life of an Art Museum Phone Operator, in Haiku
Exactly what it sounds like.
The Butter The Improv Coach
"Do you know him? Well, do you? You should."
Writing Some Assembly Required: Meditation in a Furniture Store
"I didn’t come here to make friends. I came here to this KLIMPEN/LALLE to write."
Advice How to Come Up with Great Ideas: Advice for Freelance Writers
Sulagna Misra offers some advice for freelance writers and explains how she comes up with great ideas.
Books An Interview with Alexander Chee
An interview with author Alexander Chee about writing, teaching, publishing, his recent "Future Queer" cover story for TNR, and more.
Advice Aunt Acid: Advice for Supporting Creative Friends
The Toast's Aunt Acid counsels a reader who wants to know how to be a good friend to those creative and artistic types.
