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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
By
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
By
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
By
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
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I Refuse to Support My Friend’s Crappy Self-Published Novel: Am I the Asshole?
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Kristen Arnett
| May 15, 2025
My Mean, Rich, Hot Ex-Friend is a Mediocre Literary Darling and I Hate It
By
Kristen Arnett
| May 1, 2025
Am I the Literary Asshole for Thinking All Writers Are Assholes?
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Kristen Arnett
| April 17, 2025
In Which a Couple of Actual Literary Assholes Make an Appearance
Kristen Arnett Answers Your Awkward Questions About Bad Bookish Literary Behavior
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Kristen Arnett
| April 3, 2025
Am I the Literary Asshole for Demanding More Semicolons in My Books?
Kristen Arnett Answers Your Awkward Questions About Bad Bookish Behavior
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Kristen Arnett
| March 20, 2025
There Are Too Many DAMN Commas in Books These Days: Am I the Literary Asshole?
Kristen Arnett Answers Your Awkward Questions About Bad Bookish Behavior
By
Kristen Arnett
| March 6, 2025
Am I the Literary Asshole for Thinking All Book Covers Look the Same?
Kristen Arnett Answers Your Awkward Questions About Bad Bookish Behavior
By
Kristen Arnett
| February 20, 2025
Does Any of This Matter? Am I the Literary Asshole?
Kristen Arnett Answers Your Awkward Questions About Bad Bookish Behavior
By
Kristen Arnett
| February 6, 2025
Ugh, I’m in My Friend’s Autofiction and I Hate It: Am I the Literary Asshole?
Kristen Arnett Answers Your Awkward Questions About Bad Bookish Behavior
By
Kristen Arnett
| January 23, 2025
I Want to Write About This Jerk Who Ghosted Me: Am I the Literary Asshole?
Kristen Arnett Answers Your Awkward Questions About Bad Bookish Behavior
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Kristen Arnett
| January 9, 2025
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