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Close Calls in Literary History: 10 Writers’ Brushes with Death
Close Calls in Literary History: 10 Writers’ Brushes with Death
By Freddie Moore
January 24, 2014

Learn just how close the reaper came to taking literary classics like To the Lighthouse, The Bell Jar, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings and more.

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Book Sword: David Foster Wallace, Tennessee Williams & W.H. Auden
Book Sword: David Foster Wallace, Tennessee Williams & W.H. Auden
By Kate Gavino
March 06, 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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