Reddit troll spends a year obsessively posting about Infinite Jest
What happens when you can’t tell a troll from the people they’re making fun of? At The Daily Dot, Miles Klee introduces us to to jeremy1122, a Reddit troll who… Read more »
The Times is just trolling indie booksellers now, and it’s sort of brilliant
Yesterday was a banner day for bookstore-concerned trolling in the pages of the Gray Lady. First Julie Bosman broke the news to a rapt readership that rent for retail spaces… Read more »
Anne Rice fights Amazon trolls
When I was in middle school, I was incredibly honored to get an email response from Anne McCaffrey for a school project that I had to route through her publicist.… Read more »
Strident, whining, ignorant morons: Mary Beard on the female voice in the public realm
We reported last summer on the torrent of online abuse classicist and Cambridge don Mary Beard encountered after appearing on the British program Question Time, and how she responded: by… Read more »
“Wake-up call” for Twitter from Jane Austen bank note campaigner
Caroline Criado-Perez ran a successful three-month campaign for Jane Austen to appear on a £10 note, and in the wake of her bank note victory, a sustained attack against her… Read more »