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Twit Wit: Teju Cole on the Four Most Beautiful Words in the English Language

December 20, 2012

If brevity is truly the soul of wit, then your Twitter feed is the Algonquin round table of today's digital Dorothy Parkers and Ogden Nashes. Here's a selection of our favorite tweets from the week; nominate yours by submitting to @blackballoonpub with #twitwit.

Cheap Wine, Plastic Chairs: Jami Attenberg at Greenlight Bookstore

By Kate Gavino

November 27, 2012

A weekly series that celebrates everyone’s favorite part of the author reading: the Q&A. This week, Jami Attenberg, author of The Middlesteins, talks about the emotional attachments of writing about food.

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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.