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Get Schooled: 10 Famous Authors Who Worked as Professors
Get Schooled: 10 Famous Authors Who Worked as Professors
By Michelle King
May 23, 2014

Lorrie Moore, David Foster Wallace, Junot Diaz — if only we could mix and match our favorite authors to create the world’s best curriculum!

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Ease Your Post-Grad Jitters: 5 Authors Share What They Did After Graduation
Ease Your Post-Grad Jitters: 5 Authors Share What They Did After Graduation
By Michelle King
May 21, 2014

Don’t worry, they were just as scared as you are.

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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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Embracing Uncertainty: 13 Quotes to Ground Your Graduation Anxiety
Embracing Uncertainty: 13 Quotes to Ground Your Graduation Anxiety
By Freddie Moore
May 20, 2014

After being in school for basically your entire life, of course graduation is scary. Thankfully, there’s quote therapy for that.

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Turn on, Tune in, Drop out: 5 Successful Authors Who Quit College
Turn on, Tune in, Drop out: 5 Successful Authors Who Quit College
By Freddie Moore
May 20, 2014

Jonathan Lethem, Jamaica Kincaid and F. Scott Fitzgerald all prove that there’s more than one road to success.

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Oh, the Things You’ll Buy! 10 Gifts That Your Graduate Will Actually Appreciate
Oh, the Things You’ll Buy! 10 Gifts That Your Graduate Will Actually Appreciate
By Michelle King
May 19, 2014

Because receiving Dr. Seuss’s Oh, the Places You’ll Go! is only encouraging another generation of man-babies.

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Beyond “This is Water”: 7 Kickass Commencement Speeches by Women Writers
Beyond “This is Water”: 7 Kickass Commencement Speeches by Women Writers
By Adina Applebaum
May 19, 2014

David Foster Wallace’s Kenyon commencement speech is amazing, but Susan Sontag, Toni Morrison and Nora Ephron can do just as well (if not better).

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Today in Literary History: Percy Shelley Thrown Out of Oxford
Today in Literary History: Percy Shelley Thrown Out of Oxford
By Kim McCann
March 25, 2014

On March 25, 1811, the Romantic poet was expelled for publishing The Necessity of Atheism.

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No, Seriously: MFA or NYC?
No, Seriously: MFA or NYC?
By Peter Madsen
March 19, 2014

With one book published and another incubating, a writer considers the options offered up in n+1’s most recent collection of essays.

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I Did It! I Paid for My BFA in Creative Writing by Dumpster Diving!
I Did It! I Paid for My BFA in Creative Writing by Dumpster Diving!
By Adrian Shirk
January 15, 2014

One man’s trash was this woman’s tuition.

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