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Literary Tourism: Bloomsday Across the U.S.
Literary Tourism: Bloomsday Across the U.S.
By Ellen Girardeau Kempler
June 16, 2014

New York, Wichita, Los Angeles — celebrate James Joyce’s Ulysses regardless of where you are.

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Celebrate the Library of Congress’s 214th Birthday with a Few Surprising Facts
Celebrate the Library of Congress’s 214th Birthday with a Few Surprising Facts
By Adina Applebaum
April 24, 2014

The Library of Congress: making our government cool since before Obama had Twitter.

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I Did It! I Ran a Half Marathon!
I Did It! I Ran a Half Marathon!
By Jacquelyn Gleisner
March 25, 2014

An impulsive New Year’s Eve resolution that ends with cascade of neon and vomit at the nation’s capital.

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