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20 New Year’s Resolutions from Your Favorite Characters in Literature

By Black Balloon Publishing

December 27, 2013

Greet the New Year with a few resolutions from the most memorable and troubled characters in literature.

Book Sword: Zadie Smith, T.S. Eliot, and Holden Caulfield

By Kate Gavino

December 03, 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

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.