Who likes the social media ‘Like’? Nobody, that’s who. It would be like appreciating a poor phone line, or an alarm clock that worked at least every other Thursday. Some things are woefully inadequate, but we put up with them anyway. Please stop, and lend me your ears.
I am sick to the back teeth (ew) of people going on about ‘grip-lit’. Not the genre. The term. We can’t get rid of it. We can only try to outshine it. For that reason, Ladies and Gentlemen: I give you Wick-Lit, Flip-Lit and Crick-Lit. Go forth with them, and prosper.
Hardly anybody is achieving writing greatness in their 20s anymore. Why is this? Have we become complacent? Or is our arrested development entirely down to antibiotics, narcissism, and an inability to properly research an article making a grand sweeping statement?
Why do so many female comedians struggle to be taken funnily? Is your mother to blame? Do you like broad beans? And why is there an ‘X’ in First Person?
Tara Sparling writes 