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What Famous Novelists Would Say If They Knew You Stopped Reading Their Books
What Famous Novelists Would Say If They Knew You Stopped Reading Their Books
By Freddie Moore
July 25, 2014

Imagine if your bookmark could let authors know when you’ve been neglecting their books? Well, that already exists.

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Write, Camera, Action: 11 Authors Who Wrote Screenplays
Write, Camera, Action: 11 Authors Who Wrote Screenplays
By Michelle King
June 03, 2014

And you thought Joan Didion, William Faulkner and Dave Eggers only wrote books.

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10 Successful Writers Who Had Disabilities
10 Successful Writers Who Had Disabilities
By Michelle King
March 03, 2014

We honor Helen Keller meeting her teacher Anne Sullivan 127 years ago today by sharing the stories of 10 incredible writers with disabilities.

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The 7 Strangest Reasons the F.B.I. Investigated Famous Writers
The 7 Strangest Reasons the F.B.I. Investigated Famous Writers
By Freddie Moore
November 05, 2013

On this, the anniversary of the F.B.I.’s report on Langston Hughes, we revisit the bureau’s oddest forays into the literary world.

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Book Sword: Truman Capote, Saul Bellow, and S.E. Hinton
Book Sword: Truman Capote, Saul Bellow, and S.E. Hinton
By Kate Gavino
May 31, 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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