J.M. McBirnie

J.M. McBirnie

J.M. McBirnie a poet, English professor and Arabic translator. His work has appeared in such publications as The Daily Caller, The Jewish Literary Journal and Form Quarterly.

How the Internet Made Us Authors and Most Authors Awful

In the spirit of the primped humility that is clitsch, "€œI"€™m not going to lie"€: A Black Mirror episode inspired this piece. We"€™ve heard the sound: the "€œso cute"€ refrain, the first syllable pricking like a vaccination shot. Note how all our narrations devolve into the cadence ...

Milo Yiannopoulos

Fire With Fire: Milo’s Dangerous Brand

In the lead-up to the Fahrenheit 451 reenactment planned for Milo Yiannopoulos"€™ upcoming book Dangerous, Buzzfeed and its coterie ran pieces on the incendiary's previous forays into publishing. Under the pseudonym Milo Andreas Wagner, Yiannopoulos didn"€™t just self-publish two books of ...


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