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I Drilled a Hole in My Own Skull to Stay High Forever
Joe Mellen is a 76-year-old former beatnik who turned on, tuned in, dropped out, and used an electric drill to make a hole in his skull. By John Doran.
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Revisiting ‘The Power and the Glory’ During Lent
Graham Greene’s 1940 novel was condemned by the Vatican, but its flawed protagonist offers a deeper way to think about faith. By Nick Ripatrazone.
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My Life in Houses by Margaret Forster, review: ‘an ingenious structure’
Looking back at her homes, the late Margaret Forster found that walls can have hearts as well as ears. By Juliet Nicolson.
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Alan Moore: The art of magic
Comics legend Alan Moore, creator of titles including Watchmen, V For Vendetta and Promethea, talks about the link between art and magic. By Sam Proctor.
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Why Is Stan Lee’s Legacy in Question?
It’s the 93-year-old comic-book god’s universe. He built Marvel Comics and laid the foundation for today’s blockbuster superhero movies. So why, at 93, is his legacy in question? By Abraham Riesman.
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Writ in Water
The enduring mystery of Keats’s last words. By Michelle Stacey.
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Wittgenstein, bewitched
Tim Crane reviews Ian Ground and F. A. Flowers III's "Portraits of Wittgenstein."
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When George Plimpton Met the Best Bartender in Brooklyn
The only other person that I had known who possessed a similar charisma to Sunny Balzano’s was my first employer in New York: George Plimpton. Like Sunny, he both stood a head taller than most people and had such a distinctive bearing and manner that in a crowd, one’s eyes would fall on him first and naturally… By Tim Sultan.
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Betrayed by Henry James
Constance Fenimore Woolson wrote bitter, morbid, and severe fictions, but her devotion to James was her undoing. By Max Nelson.
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‘Slimy rimes’
Donne’s Contagious London. By Alison Bumke.
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Judge Seals Harper Lee’s Will From Public’s Scrutiny
In death, as in life, Harper Lee appears to have opted for privacy, as a lawyer for the estate of the “To Kill a Mockingbird” author asked this week that her will be sealed from the public. A judge in Monroe County — the section of Alabama where Ms. Lee was raised, and where she died last month at the age of 89 — agreed to seal the will in a decision made on Monday and released on Friday by the probate court.
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Scottish library promises JK Rowling a slice of cake - and she actually turns up
We’re more than a little bit jealous of this book club. If you’ve ever wondered how to get JK Rowling along to a discussion about The Cuckcoo’s Calling by Robert Galbraith (her pseudonym) we might well have the answer…
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The Disappearance of Rosemary Tonks
Praised by the likes of Philip Larkin, Tonks was a writer to be reckoned with. Why did she vanish? By Ruth Graham.
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How Mark Twain’s Ghost Almost Set off the Copyright Battle of the Century
A medium called Mark Twain’s spirit during a seance, during which he allegedly dictated a new novel. It led to one of the kookiest legal cases ever. By Parker Higgins.
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Contemplating the Infinite with Annie Dillard
“Annie Dillard wasn’t sure she was going to like me, she says, not long after I arrive at her cabin near Cripple Creek, Virginia, in the dark vastness of a November evening.” By John Freeman.
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Encompassing Genius
Nicholas Roe reviews “Eternity’s Sunrise: The Imaginative World of William Blake” by Leo Damrosch.
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Secrets of a Secret Agent
Jason Matthews was a CIA spy for more than 30 years during the height of the Cold War, from Asia to the Caribbean to the Soviet Union. Now he's got a new assignment: writing deadly accurate thrillers. By Josh Eells.
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Of Canons and Marginal Poets
Unless you are a scholar of sixteenth and seventeenth century literature you have probably never heard of John Taylor the Water Poet. Or for that matter Robert Greene, the bohemian university wit, or Richard Barnfield, the sodomitical sonneteer... By Edward Simon.
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What Color Were Kafka’s Eyes?
In “Is that Kafka? 99 Finds,” Reiner Stach curates a collection of artifacts from the author’s life. By Avi Steinberg.
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JK Rowling posts letters of rejection on Twitter to help budding authors
The Harry Potter author JK Rowling has shared some withering rebuffs publishers sent to her alter ego Robert Galbraith, in an effort to comfort aspiring authors. Rowling posted the rejection letters on Twitter after a request from a fan. They related to The Cuckoo’s Calling, her first novel as Galbraith. But Rowling also saw Harry Potter turned down several times before the boy wizard became one of the greatest phenomena...
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