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8 Authors Who Served
8 Authors Who Served
By Freddie Moore
November 11, 2013

We’re observing Veterans Day with stories of authors who served. Whether enlisting or volunteering, we’re paying tribute to them all.

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The 10 Strangest Poetry Books of the Last 100 Years
The 10 Strangest Poetry Books of the Last 100 Years
By Misha Grunbaum
March 13, 2013

Anne Carson’s new book Red Doc> inspired me to think of other works of poetry that made me feel, in Dickinson's words, "as if the top of my head were taken off." Here’s the result: from an Ouija board-assisted volume to a "starving hysterical naked" masterpiece.

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An A-Z Look at Urban Dictionary's Literary Lexicon
An A-Z Look at Urban Dictionary's Literary Lexicon
By BBP Intern
February 28, 2013

Calling all fictionsexuals and bibliosexuals! Here's an alphabetical list of literary terms we bet even you weren't familiar with, culled from the geeky and disturbed pages of Urban Dictionary.

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Book Sword: Gertrude Stein, Oscar Wilde, and Eudora Welty
Book Sword: Gertrude Stein, Oscar Wilde, and Eudora Welty
By Kate Gavino
December 12, 2012

Everyone from Galileo to Jim Morrison to countless Scrabble wordsmiths have played around with letters to form their perfect anagrams. We take literary-minded words and anagram them to find ... well, that's up to you. A deeper meaning? A hidden truth? Or just a happy coincidence?

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Eat Prey Drug: Summerland
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.

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

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The Sun Don't Shine on a Moonshine Still
The Sun Don't Shine on a Moonshine Still

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

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