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Celebrate St. Patrick's Day with the Tipsy Words of 7 Irish Authors
Celebrate St. Patrick's Day with the Tipsy Words of 7 Irish Authors
By The Illiterate Review
March 17, 2014

Seven Irish writers walk into a bar ...

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I Threw My Cellphone into the East River
I Threw My Cellphone into the East River
By Arvind Dilawar
March 14, 2014

An experiment in living wirelessly in 21st century New York City for five months and counting.

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50 Books to Celebrate International Women’s Day
50 Books to Celebrate International Women’s Day
By Michelle King
March 07, 2014

Honor International Women’s Day with these books celebrating the lives and achievements of women around the world.

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7 Books by Celebrity Authors That are Actually Worth Reading
7 Books by Celebrity Authors That are Actually Worth Reading
By Adina Applebaum
March 05, 2014

Spoiler Alert: None of them are by Pamela Anderson.

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Happy Mardi Gras: Literary Characters You Would Love to Party with Off the Page
Happy Mardi Gras: Literary Characters You Would Love to Party with Off the Page
By Freddie Moore
March 04, 2014

What better way to celebrate Carnival than with a parade of characters who know how to get down?

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10 Modern Day Book Burnings
10 Modern Day Book Burnings
By Adina Applebaum
March 03, 2014

Book burnings are still happening in more places and more frequently than you might imagine.

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Why We Find Found Photos So Captivating
Why We Find Found Photos So Captivating
By Misha Grunbaum
August 22, 2013

A Polaroid from a Brooklyn flea market, an old print found in a library book — what makes these photographs, once found, worth holding on to?

 

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Directioners: the New Beatlemaniacs
Directioners: the New Beatlemaniacs
By Jake Flanagin
August 21, 2013

Is Twitter rage of One Direction fans the next phase in fandom evolution?

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