I’m not proud about how any of the rest of this went down. I broke one of my own cardinal rules and snooped through the Boyfriend’s email. I learned that Kimberly had already forwarded my original email to him with a note that read, ‘I’m sorry, I had to tell her.’ My mind rebelled past the idea of the Boyfriend cheating on me, and kept returning to this Negroni Season business. I wasn’t even sure if I knew what a Negroni was — how could it have a whole season? I sat in my boss’s office, who was a real grown-up, who wore blue blazers and aftershave, and told him everything. Did he know anything about a Negroni Season? He looked down his glasses at me. “Only a total boozehound whore would even dream up such a thing as Negroni Season,” he said.

— Negroni Season, Everlyn Everlane in The Awl

‘I love the idea of the Tom Sawyer adventure,’ Mooney said. ‘The problem is it’s not 1883. You can’t do that anymore. You have to follow the rules.’

— This boat don’t float, Lora Pabst in Star Tribune