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The Dogs Who Haunt Edith Wharton’s Home
The Dogs Who Haunt Edith Wharton’s Home
By Ellen Girardeau Kempler
October 27, 2014

The Mount is claimed to be the site of various ghost-sightings; why are some canine-related?

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Who were the Infrarealists?
Who were the Infrarealists?
By Paul Murufas
October 24, 2014

The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolaño thrust these poets into the mainstream, but who were they really?

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Seeing Illness: Medical Memoirs by Graphic Novelists
Seeing Illness: Medical Memoirs by Graphic Novelists
By Freddie Moore
October 23, 2014

Harvey Pekar’s Our Cancer Year, David Small’s Stitches, Julia Wertz’s The Infinite Wait — how do graphic novels plumb sickness so deeply?

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A Day in the Life of a Russian Author’s Wife
A Day in the Life of a Russian Author’s Wife
By Rachael Daum
October 23, 2014

Vera Nabokova, Sophia Tolstaya, Anna Dostoyevskaya and Natalia Solzhenitsyna — suffering and child-rearing, while acting as wife and secretary to genius.

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2010: Moby Dick is the Worst Adaptation of All Time
2010: Moby Dick is the Worst Adaptation of All Time
By Freddie Moore
October 22, 2014

Herman Melville's masterpiece brought to Tommy Wiseau’s The Room-depth ruin — and a drinking game to accompany it!

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What Sartre's Refusal of the Nobel Prize Can Teach Writers
What Sartre's Refusal of the Nobel Prize Can Teach Writers
By Steve Neumann
October 22, 2014

On October 22, 1964, Jean-Paul Sartre refused the Nobel Prize in Literature, setting a precedent and an example for other writers.

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Behind the Lit: What Killed Edgar Allan Poe?
Behind the Lit: What Killed Edgar Allan Poe?
By Nicholas Laskin
October 21, 2014

Even 165 years after Poe’s death, we still have little idea what ended his life.

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Literary Tourism: Jack Kerouac’s New York
Literary Tourism: Jack Kerouac’s New York
By Shannon Moore Shepherd
October 21, 2014

From defunct dive bars to reincarnated cafes, follow the footsteps of the Beat writer through the Big Apple.

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The Biggest Little-Known Influence on H. P. Lovecraft
The Biggest Little-Known Influence on H. P. Lovecraft
By Benjamin Welton
October 20, 2014

M. R. James was an English author, scholar and inspiration to Lovecraft, though the world may have forgotten it.

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Driving Umberto Eco, and the Line Between Writer and Writing
Driving Umberto Eco, and the Line Between Writer and Writing
By Daniel Genis
October 17, 2014

Meeting the Italian writer at the airport and running into an anonymous porn reviewer both reveal the relationship between author and work.

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