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The 10 Best Friendships in Literature

By Michelle King

February 18, 2014

Celebrate National Friendship Month with these 10 novels that feature the best best friends.

The Intrepid Intern: Who’s your "Girls"/"Little Women" Spirit Animal?

By BBP Intern

January 25, 2013

This week the Intrepid Intern is helping you almost get it kind of together with a handy personality quiz. The Girls/Sex and the City comparisons have been done to death, but where are the parallels between Dunham et al. and literature’s other famous female quartet: Louise May Alcott’s Little Women?

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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.