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An Ultimate Illustrated Fantasy Guide of Gilmore Girls Mashups

  • Sophie Lucido Johnson
  • January 5, 2017
HOW AWESOME WOULD THESE MASHUPS BE? Oh well. Maybe next year.
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Weekly Geekery

  • Julia Ostmann
  • November 8, 2016
Fan fiction writers, rejoice: the future of TV is yours. Yoda-like lizard extracts water from sand without moving a muscle. Holy relics, bacteria, and the Ivy League reveal how to…
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The World’s Nicest Dad

  • Olivia Wetzel
  • August 1, 2016
Sara Benincasa‘s latest book, Tim Kaine Is Your Nice Dad, has made its way onto the bestseller lists on Amazon and Kindle since its electronic release on Friday. The 26-page book, a…
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Fan Fiction Gone Wild

  • Katie O'Brien
  • February 19, 2016
Slate’s Laura Miller details the bizarre tale of the copyright lawsuit between two No. 1 New York Times best-selling fantasy authors, showing the potential messiness of fan fiction going mainstream:…
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Fanfiction Gathers Force

  • Lauren O'Neal
  • August 19, 2013
Ever since Fifty Shades of Grey, originally written with characters from Twilight as its protagonists, struck gold, the mainstream publishing world has had to take a closer look at fanfiction. In the…
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Highbrow Fanfic: It Should Be A Thing

  • Tara Landers
  • June 17, 2013
If a book is any good, there is usually a supporting character living inside of it that you’d like to learn more about. Maybe it’s the dialogue they provide, their juicy…
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