I have been recommending Mallory Ortberg's writing sneakily for many months now, mostly tucked away in 'This Week in Books' posts. Anything excellent and literary and funny via The Toast is written by Mallory, and reading through her backlog of content is a very good way to spend an afternoon, or two, or ten. She is one of those writers of the Internet Age who demonstrates the value of a medium like Twitter and whose fantastic body of work is largely archived and available for free at any time. I've added The Toast to my RSS reader and my quality of life has increased significantly.

For those who prefer their witty entertainments in book format, Mallory has a new book, out this week, that is the hard-copy version of her very popular 'Texts From Jane Eyre' series. She added tons of new content and includes texts from lots of literary characters, both fictional and non. I'm hopeful this is only the first of her many hilarious books.