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awards A woman won a $1m literary prize. Three men turned up to collect the check. Rob Beschizza
italo calvino Three talismans from Italo Calvino Ferdinando Buscema
manzanita papers This cool subscription service brings new curated books right to your door Thom Dunn
warnings The weirdest "Writer Beware" alert of all time Rob Beschizza
macbeth The, creepiest word in Macbeth Rob Beschizza
devil house The Mountain Goats' John Darnielle announces new novel, "Devil House" Thom Dunn
bad book covers The home of shockingly bad sci-fi book covers Jess Sabine
Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Read Robert Louis Stevenson's handwritten manuscript for "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" Gareth Branwyn
literary dicks That time Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald measured dicks Thom Dunn
allison parrish Poems generated by finding midpoints between how words sound and are spelled Clive Thompson
literary festival Join Thom Dunn and "Nobody People" author Bob Proehl for an online convo about writing, whiskey, and X-Men Thom Dunn
cornell university Cornell English Department votes to change name to "Department of Literatures In English" Thom Dunn
ny times best-selling author Number-crunching the New York Times' bestseller list is not a good look for diversity Thom Dunn
reading lists Get lost in one of 50 contemporary books over 500 pages long Gareth Branwyn
literary arts Someone started a literary magazine dedicated to Taco Bell Thom Dunn
poets Monty Python co-founder Terry Jones's last major project was this Canterbury Tales app David Pescovitz
yugoslavia Passport and Nobels Jasmina Tesanovic
secret messages Woman discovers 'secret' coded message in John Milton poem 'Paradise Lost' Xeni Jardin
literature Millennials are killing Poe's Raven Cory Doctorow
literature You can read beautifully illustrated novels in the New York Public Library's Instagram account John Struan