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Ivanka Didn’t 'Rewrite the Rules,' She Borrowed Them From Other People

In her book Women Who Work: Rewriting the Rules of Success, Ivanka Trump writes that changing “the narrative around women and work once and for all” has become her life’s mission. With this book, she purportedly hopes to “provide solutions” for women who have jobs and personal lives. “Like you,” she ends her…

This Amazon Sale on Darth Vader Comics Is Impressive. Most Impressive.

If The Hallway Scene rekindled your Darth Vader love affair, all four volumes of his new comic series are on sale on Kindle today. The first three volumes will only set you back $5 each, while the fourth is marked down to $10. Once you purchase, you’ll be able to read them on basically any device via Comixology.

Jerry Jones Is A Great Guy Until He Fires You

Jerry is really personable. I mean, you’ve got to like Jerry Jones. If you’re around him, you’ve got to like him, unless you hate the Dallas Cowboys, which some people do. But as a person, he’s likeable. He’s fun to be around. His whole family is working with the team. They are a great family. I’m partial to family,…

Smart Baseball Can Still Be Fun Baseball

Functionally and historically, the sabermetric revolution in baseball is over. Analytics is not some outsider’s method of attacking institutional baseball; it’s how institutional baseball does business. Every single major-league team receives immense amounts of data from MLB about their players’ batting, pitching,…

Actually The "Dilbert" Guy's Ultimate Legacy Will Be These Great Religion Books He Wrote

You may know Scott Adams as the white guy who draws Dilbert and also loves Donald Trump and has lots of, uh, interesting beliefs on various political topics. In fact, Scott Adams’ legacy is much grander.

'There's A Lot to Be Gained From Loss and Suffering': Talking About Grief and Love with Ariel Levy

“Writing was the solution to every problem—financial, emotional, intellectual,” writer Ariel Levy says at the beginning of her new memoir The Rules Do Not Apply. That sentence is a concise description of Levy’s excitement upon starting work at New York magazine in the late ’90s, but it also works as an explanation for…

How The Daily Fantasy Wars Almost Destroyed DraftKings And FanDuel

The following is an excerpt from Dueling with Kings: High Stakes, Killer Sharks, and the Get-Rich Promise of Daily Fantasy Sports, Daniel Barbarisi’s book about a year spent attempting to become an elite daily fantasy player. The book is out now.

Fuck Off, GRRM!

Hey man, we don’t want this weak shit! Give us The Winds Of Winter! Let’s see some pages!

Apocalypse Is the Only Path to Equality, Says the New Prophet of Doom

Perhaps you imagine that enlightened lawmaking will bring our nation’s rampant inequality problem under control. History tells us the prognosis may be much, much more grim. We spoke to the author of one of the scariest books we have ever read.

Drew Magary's The Hike Is Just $3 As an Audiobook Today, If Your Ears Can Handle It

The Hike, the latest novel from Deadspin’s own Drew Magary, is one of the best, and weirdest, books I’ve read in years, and you can download the Audible version for $3 today. Just be sure to use headphones, or you’ll get a lot of sideways glances.

GRRM Will Release Pages In 2017, Just Not The Right Ones

Self-professed pages-haver George R.R. Martin recently responded to a comment on his blog about whether The Winds Of Winter, the long-awaited followup to 2011’s A Dance With Dragons, will actually come out this year. The penultimate book in the Song Of Ice And Fire series, the source material for HBO’s hit show about…

Amazon Is Marking Down The New York Times Best Sellers For Your Kindle, Today Only

If you’ve been dying to read some NYT Best Sellers (or, like me, just got a Kindle for Christmas and want to stockpile books on the cheap), Amazon is having another huge Kindle sale, in case you missed yesterday’s while opening gifts. Grab Dark Matter, Why Not Me? and more titles you’ve wanted to read but didn’t want to buy at full price for under $5.

Fill Up Your New Kindle With Dozens of Discounted Ebooks, Today Only

Get a new Kindle this morning? Amazon’s running a nice little sale on popular ebooks to stock your digital shelves, including Neil Gaiman’s American Gods, which is due for a Starz TV adaptation next year, Rick Warren’s The Purpose Driven Life, and Paulo Coelho The Alchemist, just for starters. For the rest of the list, be sure to head over to Amazon.

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