SEO Compliant Great Literature

McSweeney‘s Lists are only my second favorite thing about McSweeney’s, just after their “Open Letters to People Or Entities Who Are Unlikely To Respond.”  A little while ago, Mike Lacher‘s List Great Literature Retitled to Boost Website Traffic debuted.

It’s sort of like… what if Cracked.com wrote the Western Canon?

Actually, we’re embarrassed to say that we’re stumped by half the list.  8 Surprising Ways West Egg Is Exemplary Of The Hollowness Of The American Dream, well, that’s easy.  But, The 11 Stupidest Things Phonies Do To Ruin The World?

Maybe we should have followed our English teachers’ reading recommendations more often, but… there was always a new Animorphs book to read!

See the whole list right here.

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Susana Polo

Susana Polo thought she'd get her Creative Writing degree from Oberlin, work a crap job, and fake it until she made it into comics. Instead she stumbled into a great job: founding and running this very website (she's Editor at Large now, very fancy). She's spoken at events like Geek Girl Con, New York Comic Con, and Comic Book City Con, wants to get a Batwoman tattoo and write a graphic novel, and one of her canine teeth is in backwards.

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