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Why "Damned Scribblings," you ask? In a letter penned to his editor in 1855, author Nathaniel Hawthorne complained that "America is now wholly given over to a damned mob of scribbling women, and I should have no chance of success while the public taste is occupied with their trash - and should be ashamed of myself if I did succeed." Well, if success is achieved by making generation after generation of high school juniors despise a novel with the heat of a thousand suns, I'd say Nat is crushing it. I hope you, dear reader, will enjoy my trashy damned newsletter scribblings at least as much as if not significantly more than The Scarlet Letter.