Sam Blum
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You Should Let the BookTok Teens Find Your Next Read
TikTok is a creator’s paradise, and these days, more than just fashion influencers and aspiring comedians are clogging the platform. A new community has blossomed on the app, and it’s made up of users, many of them teens, plugging books — a pretty unlikely product, as far as social media boosterism goes.
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Our Best Career Advice of 2021 So Far
To forge a career is to accept a life of constant learning, which means always being open to soaking up the wisdom of those with greater insight. Though we’re only halfway through 2021, we’ve encountered and shared so much potentially life-changing career advice this year — a year during which the continuing pandemic has made…
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You Should Have a Favourite Niche Literary Subgenre
Sometimes you want to dive deeper than the traditional mystery, romance, thriller, sci-fi, and fantasy books. If you like any of these five major literary genres but have nonetheless grown tired of them — or you just don’t know the difference between all these literary labels — it’s time to branch out with some niche…
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How to Not Fear Death, According to Socrates
Socrates didn’t fear death. Even though he met a gruesome demise (he was executed by the state for the alleged crime of corrupting Athenian youth), Socrates didn’t flee or plead before his executioner. If we are to take his beliefs and teachings — that death is an inevitability that might be good, actually — to…