"I was a virtually unpublished writer just playing around. [...] My writing was a private exercise to please myself." — Jeffrey Eugenides, on The Virgin Suicides, now one of Picador's top-selling reissues [Daily Beast]

Bad (yet not surprising) news for parents whose idea of sex education is making their kids pinky-swear to not have premarital sex: it doesn't work. And not only does it not work, it's not safe.