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14 Theodore Dreiser Short Stories You Can Read Free Online
14 Theodore Dreiser Short Stories You Can Read Free Online
By Freddie Moore
November 14, 2013

The turn-of-the-20th-century American author’s Best Short Stories collection is free to read online.

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11 Historic Book Burnings
11 Historic Book Burnings
By David Forbes
November 13, 2013

Books have been burned all over the world, under regimes from the classical age to today. Sadly, these 11 are but a handful of instances.

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Clementine Classics: Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser
Clementine Classics: Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser
By Clementine The Hedgehog
November 12, 2013

Clementine the Hedgehog takes Dreiser's classic American novel to task with keen insight, dark humor and cut-the-crap commentary.

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8 Authors Who Served
8 Authors Who Served
By Freddie Moore
November 11, 2013

We’re observing Veterans Day with stories of authors who served. Whether enlisting or volunteering, we’re paying tribute to them all.

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10 Books That Stood Trial
10 Books That Stood Trial
By jake goldman
November 08, 2013

In which people get real upset over novelists and poets acknowledging the existence of sex and race.

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6 Great East Asian Writers You Didn’t Read in Class
6 Great East Asian Writers You Didn’t Read in Class
By Patrick Kilkelly
November 06, 2013

While living in Korea for four years and studying literature from around East Asia, these six authors stood out as particularly fantastic.

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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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8 Writers Who Almost Died Before Their Time & The Impact It Had on Their Work
8 Writers Who Almost Died Before Their Time & The Impact It Had on Their Work
By Nelson Peters
November 01, 2013

A few inches this way or that and we never would have had Crime and Punishment, Animal Farm, Waiting for Godot or the other literary works produced by these eight authors.

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Are Kids Still Reading, Loving & Hating the Classics in English Class?
Are Kids Still Reading, Loving & Hating the Classics in English Class?
By Luke O'Neil
October 30, 2013

We chat with three high school English teachers to find out if students today still love/hate the same books that we grew up reading.

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9 Great African-American Writers You Didn’t Read in Class
9 Great African-American Writers You Didn’t Read in Class
By Jake Flanagin
October 22, 2013

Exposure to literature by African-Americans ends in the classroom for some readers, but everyone should know these nine authors.

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