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Prolific Polyglots: Authors Who Wrote in a Second Language
Prolific Polyglots: Authors Who Wrote in a Second Language
By Cedric Lizotte
June 23, 2014

Jack Kerouac, Samuel Beckett, Milan Kundera — the list of writers who worked outside their native tongues isn’t just impressive, it’s surprising.

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Book Sword: Raymond Carver, David Rakoff, Simone de Beauvoir & More
Book Sword: Raymond Carver, David Rakoff, Simone de Beauvoir & More
By Kate Gavino
August 06, 2013

We take literary-minded words and anagram them to find ... deeper meaning? Hidden truth? Happy coincidence?

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Book Sword: William Faulkner, Milan Kundera, and Michael Cunningham
Book Sword: William Faulkner, Milan Kundera, and Michael Cunningham
By Kate Gavino
March 13, 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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