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“The Classics” are Not Timeless
“The Classics” are Not Timeless
By Eric Williams
September 15, 2014

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

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Reading in Public: Tales of Love and Literature, Pt. IV
Reading in Public: Tales of Love and Literature, Pt. IV
By Taylor Beck
August 25, 2014

A stranger reading Trimalchio on the subway seemingly opens up the doors to F. Scott Fitzgerald’s New York.

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Why Writers Should Read the Classics
Why Writers Should Read the Classics
By Saket Suryesh
August 14, 2014

Despite the seemingly formulaic success of modern bestsellers, one writer argues that the classics are where authors should look for inspiration.

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Literary Tourism: 6 American Sites That Inspired Great Books
Literary Tourism: 6 American Sites That Inspired Great Books
By Freddie Moore
June 02, 2014

Tourism for book nerds who would rather see Walden Pond than Times Square.

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Abandon All Hope, Ye Who Read This: 9 Books Targeted for “Trigger Warnings”
Abandon All Hope, Ye Who Read This: 9 Books Targeted for “Trigger Warnings”
By Justin Glawe
May 21, 2014

The Great Gatsby, Mrs. Dalloway, This is How You Lose Her — a movement on college campuses hopes to mark such works as possibly traumatic.

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Having a Patrick Bateman Monday or Panglossed for the Weekend?
Having a Patrick Bateman Monday or Panglossed for the Weekend?
By Genna Rivieccio
May 06, 2014

From ecstatic to suicidal, an emotional scale based on your favorite literary characters.

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Literary Foodporn: 12 Indulgent, Drool-Worthy Quotes & Photographs
Literary Foodporn: 12 Indulgent, Drool-Worthy Quotes & Photographs
By Freddie Moore
April 22, 2014

Sometimes eating is as much about fantasizing as it is tasting.

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Happy Mardi Gras: Literary Characters You Would Love to Party with Off the Page
Happy Mardi Gras: Literary Characters You Would Love to Party with Off the Page
By Freddie Moore
March 04, 2014

What better way to celebrate Carnival than with a parade of characters who know how to get down?

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Book Sword: Marcel Proust, Agatha Christine, and Emily Bronte
Book Sword: Marcel Proust, Agatha Christine, and Emily Bronte
By Kate Gavino
December 19, 2012

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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