An Incomplete List of the Worst Book Covers I’ve Ever Seen
Listen, book, your aesthetic can’t be both “lazy Warhol knockoff” and “grandpa forced to take a photo at Ye Olde Wild West Land.”
by Annaka Koster | Feb 26, 2021 | 8 comments
Listen, book, your aesthetic can’t be both “lazy Warhol knockoff” and “grandpa forced to take a photo at Ye Olde Wild West Land.”
by Annaka Koster | Jan 26, 2021 | 2 comments
You would rather die than have some people pity you.
by Annaka Koster | Dec 30, 2020 | 1 comment
Is anyone listening? Does anyone care? Or are we just writing into the void for the satisfaction of our own egos?
by Annaka Koster | Dec 26, 2020 | 9 comments
Much of my problem with Mary stems from my own somewhat-fraught relationship with my reproductive system, which is to say that I hate it and wish that it didn’t exist.
by Annaka Koster | Nov 26, 2020 | 5 comments
For those who shout down ignorance even past the point of no return, who know we are less than two minutes from midnight and continue anyway.
by Annaka Koster | Oct 26, 2020 | 8 comments
The professor in charge of my primary tutorial would, in what conservative pundits would later call “a total snowflake move,” offer to move back the due date on that week’s essay.
by Annaka Koster | Sep 26, 2020 | 6 comments
Fergie and the goldfish, thankfully, seemed unaffected.
by Annaka Koster | Aug 26, 2020 | 5 comments
Hello. You do not know me and I do not know you.
by Annaka Koster | Jul 26, 2020 | 1 comment
The scene, at first, is more akin to Jaws than Blue Planet—a silent silhouette from out of the hazy depths.
by Annaka Koster | Jun 26, 2020 | 3 comments
7. Egochristicolaphobia — The Fear of Being Associated with the Word “Christian”
by Annaka Koster | May 26, 2020 | 3 comments
Meaning, it turns out, doesn’t always accompany mortality.
by Annaka Koster | Apr 26, 2020 | 4 comments
There isn’t much I’ve enjoyed more recently than watching Clive—Clive Snails Lewis, to give him his full title—wrap his slimy self around a carrot.
by Annaka Koster | Mar 26, 2020 | 6 comments
When confronted with a dozen or so unexpected snails, one faces questions of moral principle one never thought one would.
by Annaka Koster | Feb 26, 2020 | 1 comment
Six years later and I’m still using that toolkit at least once a month, but something has changed.
by Annaka Koster | Jan 26, 2020 | 6 comments
myhappysnails.com had assured me: “There is no smell in the place where snails live in.”
by Annaka Koster | Dec 26, 2019 | 2 comments
Perhaps even more powerful than its familial themes and more impressive than its artwork and animation is how Tokyo Godfathers twists the rules of good story writing and bends them to its thematic will.
by Annaka Koster | Nov 26, 2019 | 3 comments
Like so many great dynasties before it, Disney’s empire is built on a chorus of tiny voices.
by Annaka Koster | Oct 26, 2019 | 4 comments
After all, wounds weep before they’re healed.
by Annaka Koster | Sep 26, 2019 | 0 comments
X is for kisses. X is for porn. X is your signature and where you sign.
by Annaka Koster | Aug 26, 2019 | 1 comment
I’m not scared of the gods that inhabit these places per se; I’m just wary of the humans who built them.