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Meet Ben's Sister Jane, History's Forgotten Franklin
Historian Jill Lepore cobbles from correspondence an inventive portrait of Jane Franklin,Book of Ages.
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Iceland: Where one in 10 people will publish a book
Iceland is experiencing a book boom. This island nation of just over 300,000 people has more writers, more books published and more books read, per head, than anywhere else in the world.
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This Map Shows The Most Famous Book Set In Every State
Every state has a book that it is best known for. Here are the most famous books that take place in every state.
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The Secret Lives of Mushroom Hunters
Langdon Cook's new book, the Mushroom Hunters, delves into the secretive and sometimes dangerous subculture of mushrooming.
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National Book Award finalists announced, with free e-books
The 2013 National Book Award finalists were announced on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" Wednesday, and for the first time, the National Book Foundation has offered a free e-book series with samples of all the finalists' work available for download.
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A brief history of young adult literature
Monday marked the start of 2013's Teen Read Week, but with young adult literature regularly burning up the bestseller lists, it's clear many young adults don't need an excuse to seek out the written word: Sixteen- to 29-year-olds are the largest group checking out books from their local libraries, according to a Pew survey.
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Trapped in the web with Dave Eggers' 'The Circle'
From "Brave New World" to "The Hunger Games," dystopian fiction generally presents a closed, ostensibly perfect society from the point of view of the outsider who doesn't fit in. The less-often told story is what it's like to be part of the crowd. Who accepts the words of the powerful? What kind of person would that be?
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Mark Twain is back! Volume II of his autobiography just out
Insights into the just-published second volume of The Autobiography of Mark Twain.
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Why Billy Collins Is America’s Most Popular Poet
He’s read by many—you can even find his poems in New York City subway cars—but what makes Billy Collins so loved? Austen Rosenfeld reads the latest collection to see what’s special about a Billy Collins poem.
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Did Hollywood studios help the Nazis?
The Collaboration: Hollywood’s Pact with Hitler a controversial new book claims movie studios gave into the wishes of Hitler’s Germany. How true are its claims? Tom Brook investigates.
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The King David You Never Knew
In the Bible, he’s the wise king who authored the greatest poetic wisdom of all time and was a portrait of repentance. But the real King David was a lot nastier—and more fascinating.
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Bill Bryson changes course for 'One Summer',America 1927
In his new book, "One Summer: America, 1927," author Bill Bryson explores the turmoil and triumph of a few months in American history.
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About the Frankenstein Notebooks | The Shelley-Godwin Archive
We present here for the first time in digital form all the known manuscripts of Frankenstein, perhaps the most famous and widely reproduced work of British Romanticism. These manuscripts consist of the now disbound pages from five notebooks once the property of Mary Shelley, purchased by the Bodleian Library, Oxford, in 2004, from her descendant, Lord Abinger.
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War poet's lost novel uncovered
A previously unknown novel by a celebrated World War One poet has been described as a "jewel of a find".
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George Orwell’s Five Greatest Essays
Every time I’ve taught George Orwell’s famous 1946 essay on misleading, smudgy writing, “Politics and the English Language,” to a group of undergraduates, we’ve delighted in pointing out the number of times Orwell violates his own rules—indulges some form of vague, “pretentious” diction, slips into unnecessary passive voice, etc.
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The nine circles of hell from Dante's Inferno recreated in Lego
Classic literature, horror, and lego - what more could you want? Go see if you'd rather be in circle 2 with the lustful, circle 3 with the gluttons, or... ?
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Why is the Bay Psalm Book valued at £18m?
The first book printed in what later became the United States of America is expected to set a world record at auction on Tuesday. The Bay Psalm Book is valued not only as an object of extreme rarity, but also as a symbol of a future nation's identity.
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Three unpublished J.D. Salinger stories leak online
Three unpublished works by J.D, Salinger, including The Ocean Full of Bowling Balls, have been leaked online after showing up in an eBay auction. Birthday Boy, Paula, and the aforementioned Ocean are three short stories that form part of a larger collection of Salinger works that was never published.
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Slate: "Jonathan Franzen’s First Novel Was Terrible, but it's being reissued anyway"
"Some books ought to be allowed to molder in peace. Jonathan Franzen’s first novel, The Twenty-Seventh City, published in 1988, is a paranoid conspiracy novel, the kind of thing that doesn’t age well—and hasn’t. It has earned some rest. But it’s been trotted out for its 25th anniversary..."
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The 12 Greatest Fantasy Books Of The Year
The definitive list of the best works of fantasy and everything related to witches, elves and most importantly…dragons this year.
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