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Authorgängers: 7 Writers and Their Celebrity Lookalikes

May 07, 2014

George Perec and Elijah Wood, E. E. Cummings and Channing Tatum, Ernest Hemingway and every old guy in Key West — authors may be singular in their talent, but not their looks.

A Brief Timeline of Shout-Outs to Poetry in Rap

By Adina Applebaum

April 02, 2014

Was Homer the original G?

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Eat Prey Drug: Summerland

Escaping a catastrophic blizzard to take peyote in the Arizona desert, Paul Kwiatkowski concludes his investigation into alternate perceptions of consciousness.

The Biggest Little-Known Influence on H. P. Lovecraft

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

The Sun Don't Shine on a Moonshine Still

Get a bleary-eyed view of moonshining from a modern day bootlegger.