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Book Sword: Truman Capote, Saul Bellow, and S.E. Hinton
Book Sword: Truman Capote, Saul Bellow, and S.E. Hinton
By Kate Gavino
May 31, 2013

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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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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