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Lena Dunham on "Girls" (HBO)

Our Gchats, ourselves: Why chat excerpts make good literature

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Mindy Kaling in "The Mindy Project" and Zooey Deschanel in "New Girl" (Fox/Isabella Vosmikova/Ray Mickshaw)

What “Mindy Project” and “New Girl” can learn from each other about the pitfalls of sitcom romance

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Models present creations from Moschino in London, June 16, 2014. (Reuters/Suzanne Plunkett)

Welcome to “toddlercore”: How dressing like a 2-year-old became the fashion world’s latest craze

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Baby shower games are insane: How our obsession with celebrating moms-to-be got totally out of control

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Nathan Fielder of "Nathan For You" (AP/Nick Ut)

All the business advice I learned from Comedy Central’s “Nathan for You”

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Paris Hilton’s mind-melting comeback: Why the music video “Come Alive” is the best thing she’s ever done

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Susan Patton (Fox News)

Princeton Mom is out of control: How Susan Patton turned one crazy op-ed column into a mini-empire

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Kim Kardashian’s unexpected wisdom: What I learned from playing the reality star’s crazy smartphone game

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Honey Boo Boo (TLC/Chris Fraticelli)

The real Honey Boo Boo: What reality TV did to the pint-size pageant queen

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The age of “gymtimidation”: What your gym says about you

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Jeff Probst holds up a Hidden Immunity Idol during Tribal Council on "Survivor" (CBS)

Who still watches “Survivor”? I do, you pretentious jerks

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“A woman who knows how to pick a horse”: Close-reading the surreally sexist bourbon ads that air during “Mad Men”

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