
ICYMI: Waterstones has the hottest gift-wrapping tip of the season.
‘Tis the season of realizing the limits of your spacial awareness! “Measure twice, cut once”? In this economy? Luckily, UK bookseller Waterstones has opened our eyes to a new way of rectifying our (easily preventable) gift-wrapping fuck-ups. Behold:
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— Waterstones (@Waterstones) December 16, 2019
Rotate diagonally! It works for books, as well as any number of book-shaped objects! It’s official: Gift-wrapping Twitter is the only good Twitter.

Jessie Gaynor
Jessie Gaynor is a senior editor at Lit Hub whose writing has appeared in McSweeney's, The New Yorker, The Paris Review, and elsewhere. Her debut novel, The Glow was published by Random House in 2023. You can buy it here.