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Literature's John Hughes: Rainbow Rowell On Her Love Affair With Music and...
The author of last year’s acclaimed Eleanor and Park talks to BuzzFeed about the the soundtrack to her prose and shares an annotated playlist for her newest novel, Landline . Justine Zwiebel /...
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Have You Ever Read A Guidebook To The Country You Live In?
Emma Straub, author of New York Times best-seller The Vacationers , reminisces about taking a road trip at the dawn of the iPhone age. Manmade beach, miles from anywhere in western Nebraska. Emma...
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Why "Seinfeld" Is The Most Villainous Sitcom In Human History
“Deep satire is a collision sport.” The following essay is an excerpt from Chuck Klosterman's I Wear the Black Hat: Grappling With Villains (Real and Imagined), out now in paperback. Chris Greenberg /...
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What Straight Boys'"Favorite Books" Say About Them
You haven’t read that, bro, so don’t put it in your dating profile. Justine Zwiebel/BuzzFeed "Tuesdays With Morrie doesn't actually like to read." "Best friends with his mom." "Thinks it says...
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My Sister Lived In Silence
Author Matthew Derby on how writing The Silent History helped him find the sister he never really knew. Justine Zwiebel/BuzzFeed/Photos courtesy of the author In the dream I am in my childhood home. I...
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I Was Sure Freezing My Eggs Would Solve Everything
Illustration by Kelsey King for BuzzFeed I couldn't tell you the exact moment I started thinking about whether I was going to be able to have kids, but it occurred sometime between February 2012, when...
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Why Brazil Is Actually Winning The Internet
BuzzFeed In 2004, the same year Facebook launched at Harvard, Google launched a social network called Orkut that changed internet history — at least in Brazil.John Perry Barlow, founder of the...
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My Mother, Parkinson’s, And Our Struggle To Understand Disease
The doctors prescribe pills that cause uncontrolled muscle movements, mania, and hallucinations. Our family clings to storytelling in order to survive. Illustration by Ilana Denis Bauer for BuzzFeed...
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The Down And Dirty History Of TMZ
For just $53, you can purchase a guaranteed front-of-the-bus seat on the TMZ NYC Tour. After stepping on the bus in the middle of Times Square, a TMZ-trained tour guide — handsome, blond, amiable...
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The Rise Of Europe's Religious Right
“For too long a time in Europe, pro-life people did not really say clearly and directly what they believe.” After years on the margins of European politics, social conservatives are learning to fight...
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What Will We Do With All This Freedom?
Gay men have benefited the most from legal and cultural breakthroughs. We need to get over ourselves and care about issues that aren’t specifically about gay men. Andrew Burton / Getty Being who you...
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Finding Pride Twice: How I Came Out As Gay And Filipino
I had to come out twice in middle school. Once as gay, but first as a Filipino immigrant. Chris Ritter / BuzzFeed "When did you first move to America, Matt?" my teacher asked me — in front of my...
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How We Fuck Now
BuzzFeed LGBT editor Saeed Jones joins journalists Steven Thrasher and Dave Tuller to discuss sex, gay men, and what we are (and aren’t) doing. “Marriage and wedding registries are much easier to talk...
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39 Pieces Of Advice For Journalists And Writers Of Color
Established writers of color offer priceless advice for those just starting out. For people of color, the writing industry can seem an especially challenging space, particularly for those just...
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Why You Should Read Like A Teen Again
“Teen reading” is a phrase I use not to describe a certain type of book — you can “teen read” Jane Austen or David Foster Wallace — but a certain style of reading: when you block everything and...
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They Just Wanted To Leave A Mark
I told myself the reason I hadn’t shared this story was because I hadn’t been raped in the conventional sense, that it hadn’t really affected me. But that wasn’t the whole reason. Editor's Note: This...
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Running Into My 12-Year-Old Self Online
It’s easy to forget that most of the internet isn’t being looked at by anyone. Chris Ritter / BuzzFeed Last week, I took a break from the workday cascade of emails and tweets to sit down and listen to...
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How A Trapeze Class Rescued Me From My Quarter-Life Crisis
Illustration by Kim Sielbeck for BuzzFeed I was about to jump off a trapeze platform 23 feet in the air when my instructor remarked, way too casually, "We are all dust." I thought I must have misheard...
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Notes On An Eating Disorder
Justine Zwiebel/BuzzFeed 1. It is not rational. It sits inside my body like a worm. It wraps around the edge of my vision and colors everything I touch. All day long I think about it and it thinks...
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The Last Time My Grandmother Slapped Me
“Sometimes we have to forget in order to keep loving the people we need to love.” Jenny Chang for BuzzFeed The other day I remembered something I've spent almost two decades trying to forget. When I...
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