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Goldfish-brained as we are, if a non-fiction book doesn’t have some kind of catchy, er, catch, the odds that we’ll wade through its cumbersome statistics tend to be slim. That’s why Time’s recent listicle of the Top 10 Literary Stunts found all our summer reading for us (thanks Time!), with its New Journalism-y personal narratives [...]

You’re really pushing it, you know? If it wasn’t for Listicles’ weekly list of lists that we didn’t get to make lists about, your partner would leave you, your kids would run away, your parents would kick you out and the cousin you find kind of hot even though you know you’re not supposed to [...]