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Am I the Asshole For Calling Out Romance Novelists Who Don’t Actually Care About Romance?
Kristen Arnett Answers Your Awkward Questions About Bad Bookish Behavior
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Kristen Arnett
| December 18, 2025
My Friends Won’t Let Me Into Their Writers’ Group: Am I the Literary Asshole?
Kristen Arnett Answers Your Awkward Questions About Bad Bookish Behavior
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Kristen Arnett
| December 4, 2025
Am I the Asshole For Accusing My Friend of Plagiarizing a TV Show?
Kristen Arnett Answers Your Awkward Questions About Bad Bookish Behavior
By
Kristen Arnett
| November 13, 2025
Yes, You Are the Literary Asshole If You Use AI to Edit Your Fiction
Kristen Arnett Answers Your Awkward Questions About Bad Bookish Behavior
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Kristen Arnett
| October 30, 2025
Am I the Literary Asshole for Letting AI Fix My Writing?
Kristen Arnett Answers Your Awkward Questions About Bad Bookish Behavior
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Kristen Arnett
| October 16, 2025
Am I the Asshole For Being Sick to Death of All the Mediocre Speculative Fiction Out There?
Kristen Arnett Answers Your Awkward Questions About Bad Bookish Behavior
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Kristen Arnett
| October 2, 2025
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Am I the Asshole For Absolutely Hating Literary Awards Season?
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| September 18, 2025
I Can’t Let Go of a Ten-Year-Old Literary Grudge: Am I the Asshole?
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Kristen Arnett
| September 4, 2025
Am I the Asshole For Wanting to Cheat on My “Literary” Novel?
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Kristen Arnett
| August 21, 2025
Am I the Literary Asshole For Prioritizing My Writing Over the People in My Life?
Kristen Arnett Answers Your Awkward Questions About Bad Bookish Behavior
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Kristen Arnett
| August 7, 2025
Am I the Asshole For Working on My Novel During a Shift at the Library?
Kristen Arnett Answers Your Awkward Questions About Bad Bookish Behavior
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Kristen Arnett
| July 24, 2025
If You Use AI in Your Writing YOU Are the Literary Asshole
Kristen Arnett Answers Your Awkward Questions About (Very) Bad Literary Behavior
By
Kristen Arnett
| July 10, 2025
Am I the Asshole For Sabotaging My Own Writing Before Even Starting?
Kristen Arnett Answers Your Awkward Questions About Bad Bookish Behavior
By
Kristen Arnett
| June 26, 2025
I Don’t Think My Fantasy-Writing Friend Will Get My Literary Fiction: Am I the Asshole?
Kristen Arnett Answers Your Awkward Questions About Bad Bookish Behavior
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Kristen Arnett
| June 12, 2025
My Workshop Friend Stole the Plot for a Story I Never Got Around to Writing: Am I the Asshole?
Kristen Arnett Answers Your Awkward Questions About Bad Bookish Behavior
By
Kristen Arnett
| May 29, 2025
I Refuse to Support My Friend’s Crappy Self-Published Novel: Am I the Asshole?
Kristen Arnett Answers Your Awkward Questions About Bad Bookish Behavior
By
Kristen Arnett
| May 15, 2025
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