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books Carlos Castaneda faked an anthropology classic, then built a cult Ellsworth Toohey

books New biography captures Doonesbury's 50-year sweep of American life Ruben Bolling

science fiction A consciousness on an old drive tells its awful story Ellsworth Toohey

books John Shirley's guide to wrecking your career in science fiction John Shirley

public domain Works entering the U.S. public domain in 2026 Rob Beschizza

Famous Monsters magazine's disturbing fly portrait could be yours Ellsworth Toohey

language The semicolon defended by its advocates Rob Beschizza

education The only technique to learn something new James Altucher

History Vintage travel guide accidentally becomes masterpiece of tourist horror fiction Ellsworth Toohey

Entertainment Bad writing becomes an art form in annual contest for world's worst prose Ellsworth Toohey

graphic novels An anti-boring book guide: six great gift picks Mark Frauenfelder

books Lost sci-fi masterpieces return with stunning cover designs by cartoonist Seth Mark Frauenfelder

copyright Lovecraft's unwritten Necronomicon was the Happy Birthday of weird fiction Rob Beschizza

book reviews Alan Moore's new whimsical, wonderful, and wordy novel Thom Dunn

writing Stephen King's shameless self-promotion on NY Times' "best books" list amuses and outrages Natalie Dressed

children's literature Why A.A. Milne and his son Christopher Robin ended up hating Winnie the Pooh, and stopped speaking with each other Mark Frauenfelder

artificial intelligence Winner of a prestigious literary award unabashedly used AI to write it Jason Weisberger

books New online class about mind-bending science fiction writer Philip K. Dick taught by the stars of PKD scholarship David Pescovitz

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