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1986: The Year Comic Books Became Literature
1986: The Year Comic Books Became Literature
By Kevin Cortez
September 23, 2014

Released the same year, Frank Miller’s The Dark Knight Returns and Alan Moore’s Watchmen transformed comic books into graphic novels.

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Behind the Lit: Edgar Allan Poe Marries His 13-Year-Old Cousin
Behind the Lit: Edgar Allan Poe Marries His 13-Year-Old Cousin
By Freddie Moore
September 22, 2014

179 years ago today, it was OK to marry your underage first cousin — and Poe did exactly that with Virginia Eliza Clemm.

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H. G. Wells’s Predictions: The Right, the Wrong and the Ugly
H. G. Wells’s Predictions: The Right, the Wrong and the Ugly
By Benjamin Welton
September 19, 2014

As a founder of science fiction, Wells got a surprising share the future right. He also got some things very, very wrong.

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Flash Boom
Flash Boom
By Mike Meginnis
September 19, 2014

Experiencing the atomic bombing of Japan through the short animated film Pikadon.

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Storied Children of Literature
Storied Children of Literature
By Ian Goldstein
September 11, 2014

Like Rich Kids of Instagram but, you know, actually interesting.

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The Unknown Magazine of Ginsberg, Kerouac & Burroughs
The Unknown Magazine of Ginsberg, Kerouac & Burroughs
By Helena Bento
September 09, 2014

Rhinozeros, a literary magazine from the early ‘60s which published only 10 issues, introduced Germany to some of America’s greatest poets.

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The Great Authorial Hook-Up Chart
The Great Authorial Hook-Up Chart
By Adina Applebaum
September 09, 2014

Get from Oscar Wilde to Roald Dahl in 12 romances.

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The Phantom Behind The Phantom of the Opera
The Phantom Behind The Phantom of the Opera
By Benjamin Welton
September 03, 2014

Most famous for The Phantom of the Opera, Gaston Leroux was also an accomplished — though now largely forgotten — journalist and short story writer.

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Fuck You: A Magazine of the Arts
Fuck You: A Magazine of the Arts
By Helena Bento
August 25, 2014

Once there was a magazine that published everything.

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Searching for the Bronte’s Lost Island of Gondal
Searching for the Bronte’s Lost Island of Gondal
By Kerry Fiallo
August 13, 2014

Whether due to the circumstances of time or conspiracy of sibling rivalry, the childhood writings of Emily and Anne Bronte have disappeared.

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