Thought Catalog: 10 books

What do shipwrecks, college slums, bisexuals, and Blink 182 have in common? Gaby Dunn. Gaby is a writer, journalist, and comedian in New York City whose work has appeared everywhere from ROOKIE to New York Times Magazine. “Maybe In Another Universe: The Best of Gaby Dunn, Vol. 1” is a collection of her most humorous, poignant, and touching essays to appear on Thought Catalog.

You know the phrase “sugar, spice and everything nice?” Well, this collection of essays and lists is more like self-conscious, awkward and everything relatable. Christopher Hudspeth is a writer in Tucson, Arizona. He created the pop culture blog-to-book Things 90s Kids Realize and has been featured...

Downton Abbey has brought out the Anglophile in American fans of the hit TV series. But Anglophilia has a long history in America. Why are some native-born residents of our Shining City Upon a Hill, where All Men Are Created Equal, seduced by the fluting tones of manor-born privilege? At last, Anglophilia explained---in American, thank you.

While on vacation in the Pennsylvania mountains with his wife and three-year-old son, Matthew Newton receives a voice mail from his employer. "Please call back as soon as you can," says the man's voice on the message. When Matthew returns the call he learns that he no longer has a job. And...

Are you ever going to find The One? Does she look like her online dating profile pic? Is he really into you, or is he just playing games? And what did that text even mean? Love is so confusing. But one thing's certain -- everyone's addicted. We're lonely when it's not around, and can't get enough...

Illegal immigrant Adam Humphreys is forced to abandon his cosmopolitan lifestyle for remote bush camps in Northern Canada for one summer in order to earn money. Will he return to New York and his girlfriend? Or will he spend the rest of his days in purgatory? Adam’s Summer Purgatory, 2008...

Number 24 is a collection of stories based on true accounts of an Asian-American girl’s encounters with American assimilation, racism, friendship, and sex. It simultaneously reaffirms the importance of age as well as the insignificance of it: how the world has little regard to whether one is too...

A popular question in philosophy is "how do I know I exist?" That seems really boring though. How about, "how can I use logic to get over my ex?"  PhiLOLZophy is written on the hypothesis that if you really love wisdom, you love it in all situations. You don't need to be spoonfed...

These poems and letters are inspired by, but not limited to, the following: Scream 1-3, Dazed and Confused, Ving Rhames, New Jersey, living in your parent’s basement, Dirty Dancing, The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, Scott Pilgrim, and Marvel Comics from 1991-2000, having no job, having a job you hate,...

Nashville is the account of a weekend trip to that city, addressed in the second person to the narrator's travel companion. The weekend is a complete world unto itself. Between bouts of binge drinking, the duo discuss politics, aesthetics, sex, commerce, and the trajectory of civilization. An early...