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What Would Wes Anderson Read?

By Freddie Moore

May 01, 2014

Celebrate the director’s 45th birthday with eight great reads to complement his fantastic films.

Today in Literary History: F. Scott Fitzgerald Married Zelda Sayre

By Freddie Moore

April 03, 2014

F. Scott Fitzgerald's How I Met Your Mother story might be even more complicated than the sitcom.

#FridayReads: What the Black Balloon Publishing Team is Reading This Week

By Black Balloon Publishing

March 21, 2014

Need a book suggestion for the weekend? Take a look at what our staff has been reading.

15 Fantastic Audiobooks Available for Free Online

By Jake Flanagin

March 06, 2014

Jane Austen, Oscar Wilde, F. Scott Fitzgerald — it’s all here for the taking.

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Eat Prey Drug: Summerland

Escaping a catastrophic blizzard to take peyote in the Arizona desert, Paul Kwiatkowski concludes his investigation into alternate perceptions of consciousness.

The Biggest Little-Known Influence on H. P. Lovecraft

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

The Sun Don't Shine on a Moonshine Still

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