October 23, 2014
Vera Nabokova, Sophia Tolstaya, Anna Dostoyevskaya and Natalia Solzhenitsyna — suffering and child-rearing, while acting as wife and secretary to genius.
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Vera Nabokova, Sophia Tolstaya, Anna Dostoyevskaya and Natalia Solzhenitsyna — suffering and child-rearing, while acting as wife and secretary to genius.
Read MoreIf Nabokov’s memoir catalyzed Lolita, who knows what memoir writing can do for Gary Shteyngart and Tom Robbins.
Read MoreLiterally bumping into a crush reading Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace at Emerson College in Boston.
Read MoreJack Kerouac, Samuel Beckett, Milan Kundera — the list of writers who worked outside their native tongues isn’t just impressive, it’s surprising.
Read MoreDespite Nabokov’s wishes, many designers have had a go at trying to illustrate his infamous nymphet.
Read MoreEveryone gets rejected at some time or another, but you can always take solace in knowing that you’re in good company.
Read MoreRest easy, bibliophiles: No director will be ruining these beloved books.
Read MoreEveryone 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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you ever read something so brilliant that you wished you’d written it?
These literary mad libs are your chance to rewrite the classics, no
monkeys or typewriters required.
Why hasn’t Mattel ever paired Barbie with a literary classic? We decided to make their jobs easy by whipping up some cross-marketing campaigns of our own. You're welcome.
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