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Oscar Wilde: The Rise and Fall of the 20th Century’s First Pop Celebrity
Oscar Wilde: The Rise and Fall of the 20th Century’s First Pop Celebrity

“He had a musician’s sense of a sentence.”

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Choosing to Die: Sir Terry Pratchett Comes to Terms with His Death
Choosing to Die: Sir Terry Pratchett Comes to Terms with His Death

Befriending the Grim Reaper, or what Swiss sunshine has to do with the ultimate personal freedom.

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Young Hemingway’s Letters: A Rare Glimpse of the Author’s Tender Side
Young Hemingway’s Letters: A Rare Glimpse of the Author’s Tender Side

Rediscovering one of literature’s greatest personas through the vulnerable pieces of his personhood.

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Poets Ranked by Beard Weights
Poets Ranked by Beard Weights

Calculating aptitude by way of facial hair, or what Walt Whitman’s “hibernator” has to do with phrenology.

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Tales for Little Rebels: Radical Politics in Famous Children’s Books
Tales for Little Rebels: Radical Politics in Famous Children’s Books

What Dr. Seuss has to do with gender politics, or how Carl Sandburg carried out anti-war propaganda.

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And So It Goes: A Rare Glimpse of Kurt Vonnegut’s Tortured Soul
And So It Goes: A Rare Glimpse of Kurt Vonnegut’s Tortured Soul

The equilibrium of fiction, or what the Occupy movement can learn from a former GE PR executive.

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The Ecstasy of Influence: Jonathan Lethem on the Author as a Public Intellectual
The Ecstasy of Influence: Jonathan Lethem on the Author as a Public Intellectual

A self-conscious reflection on literary self-consciousness, or what David Foster Wallace’s true gift really was.

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The Anatomy of Influence: Mapping the Labyrinth of Literature
The Anatomy of Influence: Mapping the Labyrinth of Literature

What Leo Tolstoy can teach us about curation.

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Hark! A Vagrant: Witty Comics about Historical & Literary Figures
Hark! A Vagrant: Witty Comics about Historical & Literary Figures

Training for presidents, Victorian dude-spotting, and what the Brontë Sisters have to do with Jules Verne.

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Samuel Beckett’s Only Cinematic Project: A Silent Film from 1965
Samuel Beckett’s Only Cinematic Project: A Silent Film from 1965

What a cinema history anachronism has to do with Chaplin’s replacement and the psychology of voyeurism.

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