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Why do novels always have to say they're novels? Like, on the cover of American Gods. It says this in tiny tiny print above the title. Is this a leftover from when novels were considered tawdry entertainment not fit for respectable people so they'd know what not to read? It just seems to me a very odd practice, because almost everything I find at bookstores are novels nowadays.

A stupid thing to ponder when I should be studying for my sociology final, I know.

Two things...

Does anybody know what "gevalt" (as in oy gevalt) means?

My friend Jeff is going to propose to his girlfriend at the end of summer. He is two months older than me. I feel the creaks in my bones setting in...