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Name Your Poison: 7 Alcoholic Drinks and their Literary Counterparts
Name Your Poison: 7 Alcoholic Drinks and their Literary Counterparts
By Michelle King
June 08, 2014

Take your drinking-while-reading habit to the next level.

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Get Schooled: 10 Famous Authors Who Worked as Professors
Get Schooled: 10 Famous Authors Who Worked as Professors
By Michelle King
May 23, 2014

Lorrie Moore, David Foster Wallace, Junot Diaz — if only we could mix and match our favorite authors to create the world’s best curriculum!

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Book Sword: Samuel Beckett, Norman Mailer, and Lydia Davis
Book Sword: Samuel Beckett, Norman Mailer, and Lydia Davis
By Kate Gavino
June 12, 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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