Podcast appearances and mentions of mallory ortberg

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Welcome to Our Life In Books where we talk about our lives, books and everything in between!  This week we’re talking all about anthology books! These are perfect for when you’re in a reading slump or in between books and we’ve got a TON to recommend. So, grab a cup of your favorite tea and join us!   Our Life in Books Patreon- https://www.patreon.com/ourlifeinbooks Our Life In Books Tea- https://www.adagio.com/signature_blend/list.html?userId=696813O Our Life In Books Society- https://www.facebook.com/groups/ourlifeinbookssociety Our Life In Books Book Club- https://www.facebook.com/groups/ourlifeinbookssociety   Follow Our Life In Books- https://linktr.ee/ourlifeinbooks_ Follow Elizabeth- https://linktr.ee/bookishconnoisseur Follow Samantha- https://linktr.ee/bookishstateofmind   Items we mention: Starr’s Bravery- https://www.adagio.com/signature_blend/blend.html?blend=152275 The Babysitters Coven by Kate Williams- https://amzn.to/2Z2VbbT Spin the Dawn by Elizabeth Lim- https://amzn.to/2H9hMx3 Call It What You Want by Brigid Kemmerer- https://amzn.to/31IyVpj Hello Girls by Brittany Cavallaro & Emily Henry- https://amzn.to/2YNsS5X The Warehouse by Rob Hart- https://amzn.to/2H7LXVF What You Did by Claire McGowen- https://amzn.to/2H6Tsw4 Amazon Original Series: The One- https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07V5Q975G/?ie=UTF8&ref=kc_AOSTheOne Science Fiction & Fantasy Week on Goodreads!- https://www.goodreads.com/blog/show/1652?int=sffweek_sa Zodiac Signs - YA Book Crowns- https://www.epicreads.com/blog/zodiac-fantasy-crowns/ Goodreads Hacks- https://bookriot.com/2019/08/12/goodreads-hacks/ Preorder Campaign for The Queen of Nothing by Holly Black- https://www.thenovl.com/blog/2019/7/25/the-queen-of-nothing-preorder-campaign Iowa Indie- https://bookvault.indielite.org/ Jennifer L Armenttrour pre order - https://www.fountainbookstore.com/jenniferarmentrout Don’t forget about the NetGalley #Reviewathon!- http://blog.netgalley.com/join-the-netgalley-reviewathon/ 13 Young Adult Anthologies Your Shelves will thank you for Book Riot: 6 Anthologies to look for in 2019- https://bookriot.com/2019/01/07/2019-ya-anthologies/   The Language of Thorns by Leigh Bardugo- https://amzn.to/31AW6BQ Hungry Hearts: 13 Tales of Food and Love- https://amzn.to/2H9ik65 Because You Love to Have Me: 13 Tales of Villainy- https://amzn.to/2H8JaeW A Thousand Beginnings and Endings- https://amzn.to/2yZSvB1 Toil & Trouble: 15 Tales of Women and Witchcraft- https://amzn.to/2yXsMcC Fresh Ink- https://amzn.to/2KN7Muz  The Paper Menagerie by Ken Liu- https://amzn.to/31FikTh The Merry Spinster by Mallory Ortberg- https://amzn.to/2N71w3q Summer Days and Summer Nights- https://amzn.to/2H90qjX My True Love Gave to Me- https://amzn.to/2z1GLhwMeet Cute: Some People Are Destined to Meet- https://amzn.to/2Z5Ek8b

Sinister and inviting, familiar and alien all at the same time, The Merry Spinster updates traditional children's stories and fairy tales with elements of psychological horror, emotional clarity, and a keen sense of feminist mischief. Unfalteringly faithful to its beloved source material, The Merry Spinster also illuminates the unsuspected, and frequently, alarming emotional complexities at play in the stories we tell ourselves, and each other, as we tuck ourselves in for the night. Author Mallory Ortberg is joined in conversation by Michelle Dean, a journalist, critic, and the recipient of the National Book Critics Circle’s 2016 Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing.

Amanda and Jenn discuss all the short stories in this week's special episode of Get Booked! This episode is sponsored by Random House. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS here, or via Apple Podcasts here. The show can also be found on Stitcher here.   Questions   1. I am a librarian who runs a book club for teens, one that reads primarily science fiction/fantasy/magical realism. I am looking for short story collections that would appeal to the group. Previous hits with the groups include The Martian by Andy Weir, The Bone Season by Samantha Shannon, Jackaby by William Ritter, and Smoke and Mirrors by Neil Gaiman. --Alexandra   2. I've fallen in love with short stories through podcasts (like Levar Burton Reads or The Writers Voice). They're my favorite to listen to at work. I'd like some recommendations of must read authors or collections! More podcast recommendations wouldn't be amiss either. Thanks! -Catherine --Catherine   3. I normally hate short stories and have tried reading several collections hoping I could find a place for them in my heart. Most of the collections are YA and contain stories by various authors. While I'll like some of the stories, overall the reading experience isn't very good. Recently I decided to give another short story a try, so I read The Grownup by Gillian Flynn and it was not only the best short story I've ever read, but one of my favorite reads of the year. Can you recommend any short stories or collections that are similar to Gillian Flynn's writing or just have lots of twists and turns? Thanks! --Candice   4. Hello! Short stories are something I've always enjoyed writing, but I haven't read very many. I want to start to read them more so that my own writing will improve. The only short story I remember reading very vividly is The Lottery by Shirley Jackson. I read it in school and found it really brilliant. I'm looking for more literary style short stories that display the authors command of the prose and structure. Anthologies would be ideal, but I'm open to single story suggestions as well. Thanks! --Ira   5. Hi there- I've recently started reading short story and anthology collections, and I'm loving them. My recent favorite has been Paper Menagerie by Ken Liu. I'm interested in expanding into other genres though, but I'm having trouble finding many Sci-Fi/Fantasy collections. I've seen a number of Lovecraft's short story collections, but not much else. Especially not for Fantasy. Any recommendations for some action packed short stories? Bonus points for any possible YA fantasy short story collections- I found one recently and I'd love to find more! --Amber   6. Hi! I am a voracious reader and have really enjoyed listening to your recommendations since discovering your podcast :) My question... When reading fiction, I have historically preferred full-length books over short stories. However, I have recently read and loved several short story collections (Knockemstick by Donald Ray Pollack, Tenth of December by George Saunders, Five Carat Soul by James McBride), and now I want to expand my horizons in this category. What short story authors or collections would you recommend? I don't mind dark or creepy and the only genre I typically tend not to gravitate toward is romance. Thanks in advance! --Sally   7. Hello! I like reading short stories before bed-reading helps my mind unwind, but if a novel is too interesting I will stay up late reading rather than put it down. Short fiction has an obvious place to stop, but I’m running out of ideas to try next. I love Jhumpa Lahiri, and What it Means When a Man Falls From The Sky was Amazing. I also liked Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s collection of short stories, The Thing Around Your Neck. I read Carmen Maria Machado’s book, Her Body and Other Parties, as well as Helen Oyeyemi but found some of the stories too creepy for before bed. Do you have any more ideas for short fiction, ideally with a global perspective, that isn’t going to give me nightmares? Thank you! --Kara   Books Discussed The Merry Spinster by Mallory Ortberg (recently announced transition to Daniel, but book is listed under Mallory) A Gathering of Shadows by VE Schwab A Fine Summer's Day by Charles Todd Salsa Nocturna by Daniel José Older Slasher Girls and Monster Boys, incl. stories by Marie Lu and Leigh Bardugo and Kendare Blake What it Means When a Man Falls From the Sky by Lesley Nneka Arimah podcast: Reading Women Night at the Fiestas by Kirstin Valdez Quade We Show What We Have Learned by Clare Beams Troubled Daughters, Twisted Wives, edited by Sarah Weinman Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado Sorry Please Thank You by Charles Yu Tender by Sofia Samatar Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2017, edited by John Joseph Adams and Charles Yu Gutshot by Amelia Gray Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri In the Country by Mia Alvar The Djinn Falls in Love And Other Stories edited by Mahvesh Murad and Jared Shurin

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This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss Not My White Savior, Anatomy of a Miracle, Let Me Lie, and more great books. This episode was sponsored by Sometimes I Lie by Alice Feeney and The Merry Spinster: Tales of Everyday Horror by Mallory Ortberg. Sign up for Book Riot Insiders here.

CNN political firebrand Angela Rye talks about her new podcast. Note To Self's Manoush Zomorodi helps us live in harmony with our digital devices and Slate's Dear Prudence, Mallory Ortberg, just helps us. Plus: The voices of D.C. Metro with Dallas Taylor of Twenty Thousand Hertz.

Are you a book-lover, or like, a book... *lover*? What is it about literary characters that make us so damn thirsty? Special guest Mallory Ortberg (Dear Prudence, The Toast) joins us to talk about the first loves that made us stay up past our bedtimes, the ones we sneaked under the covers and explored every inch of — literary baes. How awful and perfect (for each other and for us!) were Jane Eyre and Mr. Rochester? Why was Shug Avery so magnetic? Is revenge a dish best served cold or not eaten at all? We have an exciting Thirst Sommelier, but no drabbles this week, and that's because we have a supremely hilarious reading from Mallory, in which we are dragged, cleansed and blessed. Read Things I’ve Learned About Heterosexual Female Desire From Decades Of Reading by Mallory Ortberg, and listen to Bim & Nichole's episodes of Dear Prudence. Come see us live! Thirst Aid Kit Live: The Quenchening is February 12th, 2018 at the Jerome L. Greene Space in NYC. Find tickets and information here! Do you need help figuring out your next crush? Drop us a line! Leave us a message at (765) 8-THIRST (765-884-4778) with your name and what kind of crush advice you're looking for, and maybe we'll answer your question in an upcoming Thirst Sommelier. Follow us on Twitter @ThirstAidKit. Bim is @bimadew and Nichole is @tnwhiskeywoman. Find show notes, fanfic, and more on our Tumblr.  Our music is by Tanya Morgan. For your safety, we recommend that you avoid operating heavy machinery while listening to Thirst Aid Kit. 

This week, Gavia and Morgan are joined by special guest Mallory Ortberg for a conversation about Netflix's surprise true crime spoof "American Vandal." They discuss the show's relationship to true crime, its glorious depiction of dirtbag teens and innovative use of social media, and the relief of watching something that just feels not-terrible.

CNN political firebrand Angela Rye talks about her new podcast. Note To Self's Manoush Zomorodi helps us live in harmony with our digital devices and Slate's Dear Prudence, Mallory Ortberg, just helps us. Plus: The voices of D.C. Metro with Dallas Taylor of Twenty Thousand Hertz.

There's no new episode this week, but we're delighted to rerun a favorite of ours from the beginning of the second season! Original show notes: Niko and Lauren feed the text of the Bible to an artificial-intelligence program and have it create its own Bible passage. With the help of Rose Eveleth (@roseveleth), Greg (@leducviolet), Mallory Ortberg, Ezekiel Kweku (@theshrillest), and J. W. Friedman, they discuss being a donkey as the mountain shall do to the sky, making gold of the purple, and all the other weird stuff the robo-Bible came up with. You can read the passage at sundayschooldropouts.lol/robobible and send us your interpretations at contact@sundayschooldropouts.lol. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week Star Wars has a cool new project...the Mets not so much. STAR WARS 01:30 A Certain Point of View (new SW Anthology book) 08:45 Audiobook of A Certain Point of View with (podcast spoiler) METS 10:00 Mets suckiness 15:00 Did Matt Harvey sacrifice his career for the pennant? 18:18 Hey Strawberry, enough with the 1986 Mets METS AND STAR WARS!! 27:00 Some new official combination Mets+Star Wars tees! Here's the event Jason mentions.... October 07, 2017, 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM Hudson Mercantile - 500 W 36th St In 1977 a princess, a farm boy, a scoundrel, a Wookiee, two droids, an old wizard, and a man in black set us off on a galaxy full of adventure. Forty years later, join an all-star panel of authors to celebrate the legacy of Star Wars with a new anthology that retells the story of Star Wars through the eyes of the background characters and creatures that bring the galaxy to life. Moderated by Lucasfilm Story Group member Pablo Hidalgo, this unique panel promises fun new insights into the characters and scenes of the film that you think you know, and features a rotating cast of more than a dozen Star Wars authors and contributors, including but not limited to: Ben Acker, Pierce Brown, Adam Christopher, Zoraida Cordova, Delilah Dawson, Jason Fry, Kieron Gillen, Claudia Gray, EK Johnston, Mur Lafferty, John Jackson Miller, Daniel José Older, Mallory Ortberg, Beth Revis, Cavan Scott, Charles Soule, Marc Thompson, Elizabeth Wein, and Chuck Wendig. A ticket to this not to be missed event includes a New York Comic Con exclusive edition of From a Certain Point of View: A Star Wars 40th Anniversary Celebration, pre-signed by over a dozen of the contributing authors. This edition is extremely limited with only 1,000 copies in print. For ticketing and more information, please visit: https://www.showclix.com/event/starwars5yf6nuy54006979497128.

This week, we bring you two unaired segments from our fall tour. First, All Things Considered host Audie Cornish helps us figure out when to quit a television show — and when to stick it out to the bitter end. Then, Mallory Ortberg (Slate's Dear Prudence) answers some pop culture advice questions.

Hannah and Matt hosted Mallory Ortberg of "Dear Prudence" for the Monday episode and had so much to discuss that we split the conversation in two! This overflow is FOUR questions from DP, including two old favorites and one from a recent week:  Dear Prudence (April 13 2017): "Baby Name Blow-Up"; Dear Prudence (July 19, 2016): "42 Pearls and Counting"; Dear Prudence (December 8, 2016): "Don’t Let It Burn"; Dear Prudence: "Pops, I'm Poly"; Submit your favorite questions or questions you may have for the podcast to hanandmattknowitall@gmail.com, anonymously at bit.ly/askhanandmatt, or to askahelpinghan@gmail.com for a Han-only written answer on hanandmattknowitall.com. Looking to support us? Desperately in need of a fantastical alter-ego? You can become a Patreon supporter and donate to us monthly for all kinds of sweet perks!

Hannah and Matt tackle questions from some of their favorite advice sources from the week of May 21st, 2017, and beyond—and are joined this week by special guest Mallory Ortberg of the eclectic column 'Dear Prudence' of Slate!!—including:  The Ethicist: "I Accidentally Killed a Child. May I Get in Touch With the Family?"; Carolyn Hax: "A Few Tips on Gratuities and Special Orders"; Listener: "Transition Trouble"; Submit your favorite questions or questions you may have for the podcast to hanandmattknowitall@gmail.com, anonymously at bit.ly/askhanandmatt, or to askahelpinghan@gmail.com for a Han-only written answer on hanandmattknowitall.com. Looking to support us? Desperately in need of a fantastical alter-ego? You can become a Patreon supporter and donate to us monthly for all kinds of sweet perks!

NOTE: This interview took place before Daniel Mallory Ortberg came out as a man, so you'll hear me call him by his previous name and use female pronouns.Here are the rest of the show notes as they ran in May 2017:We conclude our two-part conversation series around The Handmaid's Tale, which you can find in an Audio Drama form over at Secrets, Crimes, and Audiotape. This week, I had the great pleasure of talking to Mallory Ortberg, a writer, culture critic, and advice columnist. She's Dear Prudence over at Slate, and she used to run a magnificent site called The Toast.In this episode, we discuss:* The Handmaid's Tale and White Feminism* How to avoid becoming an Internal Expat* Fending off the Republic of Gileadand much, much more!

If aliens came to Earth looking for a dystopian novel that reflected the current political reality, would you recommend that they read The Handmaid’s Tale? Guest host Alexandra Petri considers this quandary with Mallory Ortberg, Slate’s Dear Prudence advice columnist. In the Spiel, it’s time to talk about United Airlines.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

If aliens came to Earth looking for a dystopian novel that reflected the current political reality, would you recommend that they read The Handmaid’s Tale? Guest host Alexandra Petri considers this quandary with Mallory Ortberg, Slate’s Dear Prudence advice columnist. In the Spiel, it’s time to talk about United Airlines.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Niko and Lauren feed the text of the Bible to an artificial-intelligence program and have it create its own Bible passage. With the help of Rose Eveleth (@roseveleth), Greg (@leducviolet), Mallory Ortberg, Ezekiel Kweku (@theshrillest), and J. W. Friedman, they discuss being a donkey as the mountain shall do to the sky, making gold of the purple, and all the other weird stuff the robo-Bible came up with. You can read the passage at sundayschooldropouts.lol/robobible and send us your interpretations at contact@sundayschooldropouts.lol. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode 3 of Rewrite Radio features Saladin Ahmed’s presentation on Science Fiction and the Muslim American imagination at the 2016 Festival of Faith & Writing. Saladin was born in Detroit and raised in a working-class, Arab American enclave in Dearborn, Michigan. His first novel, THRONE OF THE CRESCENT MOON, was a finalist for the Hugo, Nebula, Crawford, Gemmell, and British Fantasy Awards, and won the Locus Award for Best First Novel. Saladin's short stories have been translated into a half-dozen languages and he has also written nonfiction for NPR Books, Salon, and The Escapist. He’s currently writing a new series for Marvel Comics titled BLACK BOLT due out in May 2017. He is prolific on Twitter and you can follow him @saladinahmed. To help introduce Saladin Ahmed’s session in the podcast, is his friend and fellow 2016 Festival speaker Mallory Ortberg, author of TEXTS FROM JANE EYRE, co-founder of the defunct, but still much beloved website The Toast, and now author of Slate’s advice column Dear Prudence.

Marc and Camden discuss what's on their minds plus it's a subject of being a step parent.Today's biting my style is courtesy of Mallory Ortberg column aka Dear Prudence:)Follow us on Twitter: @isagrownassmanemail us: grownassmanpodcast@gmail.com

We're off this week for New Year's, but here's a classic episode from the archives. We'll be back next week!   Original summary: Niko and Lauren welcome Mallory Ortberg to the show to discuss meaninglessness, vanity, bad breakups, and all the pop music that seems like it could probably be inspired by the book of Ecclesiastes, if you think about it. Plus: Mallory owes a debt of loyalty to the Stewarts! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mallory Ortberg guests to discuss the 2014 film Dracula Untold's dadly depiction of this classic horror figure.

It's a Halloween Spooktacular! We bring you two Halloween-themed segments from our west coast tour: Mallory Ortberg (Dear Prudence, The Toast.) joins us for a Halloween candy debate, and All Things Considered Host Audie Cornish sits down for our super-difficult Halloween quiz. And as always, we close with what's making us happy this week.

Niko and Lauren welcome Mallory Ortberg to the show to discuss meaninglessness, vanity, bad breakups, and all the pop music that seems like it could probably be inspired by the book of Ecclesiastes, if you think about it. Plus: Mallory owes a debt of loyalty to the Stewarts! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mallory Ortberg and guest Jos Lavery discuss why we feel so compelled to discuss human relationships as transactions, and discuss how to handle family members who might be committing insurance fraud. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mallory Ortberg and guest Jos Lavery discuss why we feel so compelled to discuss human relationships as transactions, and discuss how to handle family members who might be committing insurance fraud. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

How do you tactfully let your sister know it’s time for deodorant? Or that you hate her dog? And how do you protect your sister from your overbearing parents? This week, Mallory Ortberg and guest Jasmine Guillory bring their advisory, legal, and child-of-therapists expertise to bear on the thorny questions of sisterhood, including a candid, live call with a listener (available only at Slate Plus!) Plus, Mallory reflects on being the Jack Johnson of road rage, responds to people who think it's just fine to give away your mom's dog, and spends a few minutes reveling in the newly-released footage of Jerry Lewis' long-lost Holocaust clown movie. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

How do you tactfully let your sister know it’s time for deodorant? Or that you hate her dog? And how do you protect your sister from your overbearing parents? This week, Mallory Ortberg and guest Jasmine Guillory bring their advisory, legal, and child-of-therapists expertise to bear on the thorny questions of sisterhood, including a candid, live call with a listener (available only at Slate Plus!) Plus, Mallory reflects on being the Jack Johnson of road rage, responds to people who think it's just fine to give away your mom's dog, and spends a few minutes reveling in the newly-released footage of Jerry Lewis' long-lost Holocaust clown movie. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Every week, Mallory Ortberg (aka Dear Prudence) tackles problems about love, life, and everything in between.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Every week, Mallory Ortberg (aka Dear Prudence) tackles problems about love, life, and everything in between.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

If you could change the world overnight, what would you do first?   Featuring: Masha Gessen, Crystal Lameman, Mallory Ortberg, Ann Sherry, Anne- Marie Slaughter, Jenny Brockie (Chair)

Also, why are we so much more comfortable with public sex than public masturbation? We ask these and many other sex-etiquette questions to etiquette guru Mallory Ortberg (aka Dear Prudence). With Allison P. Davis, Maureen O’Connor and David Wallace-Wells

In two separate calls, straight men are harassed by their gay male friends. One caller had his buddy drunkenly grope him. The other's pal assails him with aggressive sexual innuendo. Knock it off fellas! A married woman has a husband who doesn't trust her. She comes home late from her bar job and he assumes she's cheating on him. She's never been unfaithful. How can she turn this ship around? On the Magnum, Dan gets a Second Opinion from Mallory Ortberg, Slate's delightful, new “Dear Prudie” advice columnist. Dan throws Mallory in the deep end with a call from a woman whose 60 year-old housesitter might have riffled through her sex toy drawer, and concludes with a call from the brother of a child rapist. Welcome to the advice business, Mallory! 206-302-2064 The Savage Lovecast is sponsored by Casper, an online retailer of premium mattresses for a fraction of the price -- because everyone deserves a great night's sleep.  Get $50 off any mattress purchase by visiting casper.com/savage and enter the promo code savage. This episode is also brought to you by Squarespace.com. They make it easy to build a website or blog. Give it a whirl, and if you want to buy it, use the code Savage for a 10% discount and free web domain registration. This podcast is also brought to you by Stamps.com. Click on the microphone and enter "Savage" for $55 free postage and a digital scale.

In two separate calls, straight men are harassed by their gay male friends. One caller had his buddy drunkenly grope him. The other's pal assails him with aggressive sexual innuendo. Knock it off fellas! A married woman has a husband who doesn't trust her. She comes home late from her bar job and he assumes she's cheating on him. She's never been unfaithful. How can she turn this ship around? On the Magnum, Dan gets a Second Opinion from Mallory Ortberg, Slate's delightful, new “Dear Prudie” advice columnist. Dan throws Mallory in the deep end with a call from a woman whose 60 year-old housesitter might have riffled through her sex toy drawer, and concludes with a call from the brother of a child rapist. Welcome to the advice business, Mallory! 206-302-2064 The Savage Lovecast is sponsored by Casper, an online retailer of premium mattresses for a fraction of the price -- because everyone deserves a great night's sleep.  Get $50 off any mattress purchase by visiting casper.com/savage and enter the promo code savage. This episode is also brought to you by Squarespace.com. They make it easy to build a website or blog. Give it a whirl, and if you want to buy it, use the code Savage for a 10% discount and free web domain registration. This podcast is also brought to you by Stamps.com. Click on the microphone and enter "Savage" for $55 free postage and a digital scale.

Dan Kois and Allison Benedikt discuss how to talk with your kids about the terrible news of the world with teacher Matthew Dicks and then Slate's new Dear Prudence columnist Mallory Ortberg answers listeners' parenting questions. Mom and Dad are Fighting is brought to you by Little Passports. Keep your kids busy this summer with Little Passports, the award-winning subscription for kids. Right now, Mom & Dad Are Fighting listeners can save 40% on their first month with promo code MOMANDDAD40. Learn more at littlepassports.com/momanddad. And by Prudential’s 40/40 Vision, a multimedia microsite exploring what life—and the future—looks like to today’s 40-somethings. Hear what inspires real people, the hopes they have for tomorrow, and much more. See yourself in their stories at slate.com/4040vision/family.And by BollandBranch.com, the company that makes luxury bedding affordable. Get the nicest sheets you've ever owned for about half the price of what stores and boutiques are charging. Order right now and they'll give you $50 off a set of sheets, plus free shipping. Go to BollAndBranch.com and use the promo code MOMANDDAD. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In a world where it is considered appropriate to leave your phone face up at the dinner table, where one can find private text messages from an ex screen-captured and posted on Instagram for all to see, and where even Mary-Kate Olsen forces her wedding guests to forfeit their phones into a bowl... sometimes we just need a little bit of advice.  Enter Mallory Ortberg, best known for writings such as an imagined dialogue with baby Foucault to unsolicited advice for Henry VIII's wives to fan fic about Kristen Stewart-as-a-girlfriend. Her "Texts From..." series on The Toast, where she imagined text message conversations between historical and literary figures, became a book last year called Texts From Jane Eyre. And as of November, she's becoming the newest Dear Prudence advice columnist at Slate.  On this week's episode of Note to Self, we asked Mallory to put on her Prudence hat to help us answer just a few of questions we've received from listeners desperately seeking tech advice. We're also taking this opportunity to test out a new app called Focus from our friend Kevin Holesh (the developer behind the Moment app, which tracks how much time you spend on your phone). It yells at you for walking and texting. Or, as we prefer to call it, "wexting." Listen in to hear what she has to say on these questions, and to learn what, exactly, "wexting" is*: Why Won't Anyone Respond to my Emails? "I have noticed that it is often impossible to get people to respond to emails. Even to emails containing a direct question, even to work emails.  People may read them, but often don't respond to them.  Do they forget to, or just not feel the need to respond? Should I be paranoid or is this an issue for other people as well?" – Dulcie Arnold in New York How Can I Avoid Social Media FOMO? "I am constantly using Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, etc., and I do enjoy using them, so I don't want to just flat out stop. However, I do often get bad cases of FOMO (Fear Of Missing Out). I am constantly feeling left out (even if I wouldn't even want to go if invited). I never feel content with what I'm doing myself. Even though I know most of these posts are taken to make it look like a really good time (even when it's not), I still fall for it."  – Kynan in Australia Is the "Wexting" Zombie Apocalypse Upon Us? "I'd like to ask about... a phenomenon I call 'cell phone zombies.' It's the people I have to be on the alert to avoid hitting because they're walking the streets with their hands outstretched completely looking intently at their cell phones oblivious of their surroundings." – Liel Biran in Israel In this episode: Mallory Ortberg, Slate's newest Dear Prudence Kevin Holesh, the developer behind the anti-driving/walking and texting app Focus Subscribe to Note to Self on iTunes, Stitcher, TuneIn, I Heart Radio, or anywhere else using our RSS feed.

Our Jewish guest, Bat Sheva Marcus, is a sex counselor, podcast host, and president of the Jewish Orthodox Feminist Alliance. She tells us about the most common issues her patients face, the challenges of finding rabinically-approved erotica for observant Jews, and the importance of maintaining a sexual connection in long-term monogamous relationships.    Our non-Jewish guest is Mallory Ortberg, founder and editor of feminist literary website the Toast, and Slate's new Dear Prudence advice columnist. She talks to us about her bestselling book, Texts From Jane Eyre, her evangelical pastor father, and the difficulties of dispensing advice. Her questions for the panel are whether lox is different from smoked salmon, and why there aren't as many Jewish denominations as there are Christian.   For more Bat Sheva Marcus, check out her podcast, The Joy of Text, here: http://jpmedia.co/podcasts/joy-of-text/. You can read Mallory Ortberg's Slate columns here: http://www.slate.com/authors.mallory_ortberg.html. Check out The Toast at http://the-toast.net/.    We love hearing from you. Email us at Unorthodox@tabletmag.com, and sign up for our weekly newsletter at http://bit.ly/UnorthodoxPodcast.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jane is joined by Virgina Sheppard and they discuss weird happenings in the book world, reading, and romance novels. Specifically, the next two chapters in Nora Roberts' Born in Fire. Books Mentioned: Texts from Jane Eyre by Mallory Ortberg, Golden Boy by Abigail Tarttelin, The Story of Awkward by R.K. Ryals. For more information and show notes go to dibtbpodcast.blogspot.com

This week, Dave and Gunnar talk about your singular uniqueness on the web, miniaturizing almost everything, and Dell IT using OpenShift. One of these things is not like the other: Fodor’s Go List 2015 “A foreign language has been creeping into many of the presentations I hear and the memos I read. It adds nothing to a message but noise, and I want your help in stamping it out. It’s called gobbledygook. There’s no shortage of examples. Nothing seems to get finished anymore it gets “finalized.” Things don’t happen at the same time but “coincident with this action.” Believe it or not, people will talk about taking a “commitment position” and then because of the “volatility of schedule changes” they will “decommit” so that our “posture vis-à-vis some data base that needs a sizing will be able to enhance competitive positions.” That’s gobbledygook.” – Thomas J. Watson OpenShift’s Joe Fernandes’ comes out swinging in 2015. Endui App Looks To End DUIs Microsoft releases Project Orleans, code behind Halo 4 Jessica Silbey on Berkman Center’s Radio Berkman Podcast: determining the effect of copyright law and regulation through interviews with creators She’s promoting her new book, “The Eureka Myth: Creators, Innovators, and Everyday Intellectual Property” Chromium to start marking HTTP as insecure AmIUnique.org: Learn how identifiable you are on the Internet Google integrates Nest with Google Now, Gunnar sets himself on fire USB Armory: Open Source USB Stick Computer USBdriveby: covertly install a backdoor and override DNS settings with style This Board Lets You Give Any Arduino Project Predator-Style Heat Vision Outsmarting traffic together: People finding their ‘waze’ to once-hidden streets Dell IT uses Red Hat OpenStack after stumbling with some other guys OpenShift at SPAWAR, so that’s nice If you don’t have an opinion about the North Korea thing, may we suggest Pete W Singer’s? Alamo Drafthouse NSFW PSA: See also: Team America: World Police Oblique Strategies: Something Don Draper would say? Oblique strategy generator Cutting Room Floor The Creepy, Kitschy and Geeky Patches of US Spy Satellite Launches Panda: The Action Movie Ayn Rand Reviews Children’s Movies Also from Mallory Ortberg: Literary Break-up Texts   We Give Thanks Dr. David A. Wheeler for the mobile browser suggestion!

So, next time? Well, it’s “Caviar with Everything,” which isn’t exactly a Columbo episode, so much as a Mrs. Columbo episode. It is our holiday “gift” to you, the listener. Returning guest Mallory Ortberg (the-toast.net, Texts from Jane Eyre) will be joining us to discuss whatever this is. It’s not on Netflix Instant, just on the DVDs […]

Mallory Ortberg (the-toast.net) joins Jon and RJ to discuss “Etude in Black,” which features John Cassavetes as an orchestra conductor who murders his mistress/concert pianist. It’s up to Columbo to unravel how and why the maestro staged the woman’s death as an apparent suicide. Also involved- his long-suffering wife, Blythe Danner; her very, very wealthy […]