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Book Sword: Marcel Proust, Dylan Thomas, Ian McEwan & More
Book Sword: Marcel Proust, Dylan Thomas, Ian McEwan & More
By Kate Gavino
August 22, 2013

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

 

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Cheap Wine, Plastic Chairs: Tracy K. Smith at the Strand
Cheap Wine, Plastic Chairs: Tracy K. Smith at the Strand
By Kate Gavino
December 18, 2012

A weekly series that celebrates everyone’s favorite part of the author reading: the Q&A. This week, Pulitzer Prize winner Tracy K. Smith explains where her love for poetry began.

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