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October 20, 2014

M. R. James was an English author, scholar and inspiration to Lovecraft, though the world may have forgotten it.

October 10, 2014

Coming out of isolation and starting over in Wisconsin.

October 08, 2014

Classic, fascinating and downright strange titles recently added to the free digital library.

October 03, 2014

Get a bleary-eyed view of moonshining from a modern day bootlegger.

Eat Prey Drug: Motel 6

September 26, 2014

A pit-stop in South Dakota reconnects friends, memories and everyone with a camera phone.

Flash Boom

September 19, 2014

Experiencing the atomic bombing of Japan through the short animated film Pikadon.

September 15, 2014

Readers should embrace classic literature, but we shouldn’t worship The Classics.

September 12, 2014

On the road in Idaho and Montana, a cross-country investigation into alternate perceptions of consciousness takes a devastating detour through Haiti.

September 09, 2014

Get from Oscar Wilde to Roald Dahl in 12 romances.

September 05, 2014

Take a tour of the compound which the infamous Cartel boss called home while “incarcerated” in the early ‘90s.

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