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Rereading the Thrillers of My Youth
Rereading the Thrillers of My Youth
By Adina Applebaum
July 09, 2014

My 12-year-old self loved books filled with blood, boobs and brains. In other words, my 12-year-old self loved Christopher Pike.

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Get Schooled: 10 Famous Authors Who Worked as Professors
Get Schooled: 10 Famous Authors Who Worked as Professors
By Michelle King
May 23, 2014

Lorrie Moore, David Foster Wallace, Junot Diaz — if only we could mix and match our favorite authors to create the world’s best curriculum!

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Ease Your Post-Grad Jitters: 5 Authors Share What They Did After Graduation
Ease Your Post-Grad Jitters: 5 Authors Share What They Did After Graduation
By Michelle King
May 21, 2014

Don’t worry, they were just as scared as you are.

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Abandon All Hope, Ye Who Read This: 9 Books Targeted for “Trigger Warnings”
Abandon All Hope, Ye Who Read This: 9 Books Targeted for “Trigger Warnings”
By Justin Glawe
May 21, 2014

The Great Gatsby, Mrs. Dalloway, This is How You Lose Her — a movement on college campuses hopes to mark such works as possibly traumatic.

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Turn on, Tune in, Drop out: 5 Successful Authors Who Quit College
Turn on, Tune in, Drop out: 5 Successful Authors Who Quit College
By Freddie Moore
May 20, 2014

Jonathan Lethem, Jamaica Kincaid and F. Scott Fitzgerald all prove that there’s more than one road to success.

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Oh, the Things You’ll Buy! 10 Gifts That Your Graduate Will Actually Appreciate
Oh, the Things You’ll Buy! 10 Gifts That Your Graduate Will Actually Appreciate
By Michelle King
May 19, 2014

Because receiving Dr. Seuss’s Oh, the Places You’ll Go! is only encouraging another generation of man-babies.

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Beyond “This is Water”: 7 Kickass Commencement Speeches by Women Writers
Beyond “This is Water”: 7 Kickass Commencement Speeches by Women Writers
By Adina Applebaum
May 19, 2014

David Foster Wallace’s Kenyon commencement speech is amazing, but Susan Sontag, Toni Morrison and Nora Ephron can do just as well (if not better).

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Celebrate the Library of Congress’s 214th Birthday with a Few Surprising Facts
Celebrate the Library of Congress’s 214th Birthday with a Few Surprising Facts
By Adina Applebaum
April 24, 2014

The Library of Congress: making our government cool since before Obama had Twitter.

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Celebrate National Library Week with 10 WTF Facts About New York City Libraries
Celebrate National Library Week with 10 WTF Facts About New York City Libraries
By Adina Applebaum
April 14, 2014

National Library Week is about to get stranger than you ever thought it could be.

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