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Cthulhu for President | TLS

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Cthulhu for President | TLS

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The Poetics of Football

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The Poetics of Football

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How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love ‘Moby-Dick’

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How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love ‘Moby-Dick’

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In iceberg country, the bulk of experience lies beneath the surface. [ ]

An Illustration of Every Page of Herman Melville’s Moby Dick

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An Illustration of Every Page of Herman Melville’s Moby Dick

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Herman Melville’s Moby Dick, the work he is most known for in death, had the effect in life of ruining his literary reputation and driving him into obscurity. This is but one... [ ]

10 simple ways to make time for reading in 2015

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10 simple ways to make time for reading in 2015

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Are unread books piling up on the nightstand? It might be time to rethink your approach to reading. It can be tough to get back to regular reading when the rest of... [ ]

George R. R. Martin just ensured 'Game of Thrones' show will overtake books

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George R. R. Martin just ensured 'Game of Thrones' show will overtake books

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Longtime readers of "A Song of Ice and Fire" — the still-incomplete book cycle on which HBO's Game of Thrones is based — get ready to roll your eyes Author George R.... [ ]

How Nick Hornby Keeps His Writing Fresh

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How Nick Hornby Keeps His Writing Fresh

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The author of Funny Girl, Fever Pitch, and High Fidelity champions the virtue in adapting other people's work and explains why he never wants to write a sequel. [ ]

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Penguin Clothbound Classics • /r/books

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Penguin Clothbound Classics • /r/books

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I've been thinking of picking up the Penguin Clothbound Classics Version of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass as well... [ ]

Number of books published per year per capita by country in Europe

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Number of books published per year per capita by country in Europe

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Being an author myself, I was very much interested in the number of books published in different European countries. I wasn't able to find [ ]

A Moscow library containing rare UN documents, ancient Slavic texts, and 14 million books is on fire

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A Moscow library containing rare UN documents, ancient Slavic texts, and 14 million books is on fire

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A major loss. [ ]

UPDATED: George R.R. Martin’s publisher says The Winds of Winter not currently scheduled

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UPDATED: George R.R. Martin’s publisher says The Winds of Winter not currently scheduled

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UPDATE: The language that Jane Johnson used is very careful and easily misinterpreted. All she's said is that The Winds of Winter is not currently on the schedule, but since she stresses the... [ ]

Middle School Reading Lists 100 Years Ago vs. Today Show How Much Our Standards Have Declined

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Middle School Reading Lists 100 Years Ago vs. Today Show How Much Our Standards Have Declined

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This is why in a hundred years, we've gone from teaching Latin and Greek in high school to teaching remedial English in college. [ ]

Sexist Obituary Of Acclaimed Novelist Goes Viral

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Sexist Obituary Of Acclaimed Novelist Goes Viral

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Colleen McCullough, 1977. CREDIT: AP Colleen McCullough wrote 25 novels. Her The Thorn Birds sold 30 million copies worldwide for $1.9 million, then a record; a miniseries starring Richard Chamberlain and Barbara... [ ]

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The Thorn Birds author Colleen McCullough dies on Norfolk Island

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The Thorn Birds author Colleen McCullough dies on Norfolk Island

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COLLEEN McCullough, Australia’s best-selling author, was a charmer. Plain of feature, and certainly overweight, she was, nevertheless, a woman of wit and warmth. [ ]

How to Tell if You’re in a MFA Workshop Story

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How to Tell if You’re in a MFA Workshop Story

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If you think you might be in a MFA workshop story, we can help. [ ]

'Don Quixote' author's coffin found after nine-month search

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'Don Quixote' author's coffin found after nine-month search

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A nine-month search in a tiny chapel in Madrid for the long-lost remains of legendary Spanish writer Miguel de Cervantes has taken a dramatic step forward with the discovery of what is believed... [ ]

Fellows Find: H. P. Lovecraft letter sheds light on pivotal moment in his career

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Fellows Find: H. P. Lovecraft letter sheds light on pivotal moment in his career

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James Machin is a PhD student at Birkbeck, University of London, working on a thesis on early weird fiction, circa 1880 to 1914. He is also the editor of Faunus, the journal of... [ ]

Anne Enright announced as Ireland’s first fiction laureate

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Anne Enright announced as Ireland’s first fiction laureate

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Arts Council of Ireland unanimously choose the author from 34 candidates as the public face of Irish fiction, writes Blake Morrison [ ]

Frank Herbert’s Dune at 50 has life in it yet

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Frank Herbert’s Dune at 50 has life in it yet

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Confusing sequels, terrible prequels and poor adaptations aside, Frank Herbert’s masterpiece still stands up as the one of the truly great sci-fi novels I first discovered Dune through David Lynch’s 1984 film... [ ]

The Cat That Therefore I Am: On Robert Repino's 'Mort(e)'

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The Cat That Therefore I Am: On Robert Repino's 'Mort(e)'

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Written in the third creature, Mort(e) by Robert Repino is an interspecies war novel that hews closely to the actions and thoughts of a cat named Mort(e). First known as Sebastian, Mort(e) is... [ ]

Thousands of early English books released online to public by Bodleian Libraries and partners

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Thousands of early English books released online to public by Bodleian Libraries and partners

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25,000+ early English texts have been released online - part of an scheme by the University of Oxford’s Bodleian Libraries & the University of Michigan Library. [ ]

George RR Martin’s The Winds of Winter: no plans for publication in 2015

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George RR Martin’s The Winds of Winter: no plans for publication in 2015

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Fans face a long wait for the sixth novel in the bestselling A Song of Ice and Fire series, but a new edition of three previously anthologised Westeros-set novellas is due in October,... [ ]

Love Poetry Generator - ProFlowers Blog

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Love Poetry Generator - ProFlowers Blog

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Tongue-tied every time you try to express your love to that special someone? Use our poetry generator to create a love poem for your one and only. [ ]

Die 50 besten Bücher 2014 - Leselink

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Die 50 besten Bücher 2014 - Leselink

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Unsere erste eigene Buch-Veröffentlichung Etwa 100.000 Neuerscheinungen werden pro Jahr in Deutschland veröffentlicht. Auch wenn etwa 40% dieser kaum vorstellbaren Zahl an Büchern aus dem wissenschaftlichen Bereich stammt, fällt es schwer bis unmöglich,... [ ]

Weekly Recommendation Thread for the week of January 30, 2015 • /r/books

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Weekly Recommendation Thread for the week of January 30, 2015 • /r/books

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Welcome to our weekly recommendation thread! The mod team has decided to condense the many "suggest some books" threads posted every week into one... [ ]

Rod McKuen, Prolific Poet and Lyricist, Dies at 81

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Rod McKuen, Prolific Poet and Lyricist, Dies at 81

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Mr. McKuen, the author of dozens of books, was once described as “the unofficial poet laureate of America.” [ ]

Fantasy-Faction’s Best Fantasy Books of 2014 | Fantasy-Faction

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Fantasy-Faction’s Best Fantasy Books of 2014 | Fantasy-Faction

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Fantasy-Faction’s top fantasy reads of 2014! [ ]

Why You Need A Tanya Huff Shelf

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Why You Need A Tanya Huff Shelf

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There is a Tanya Huff book to fulfill any possible speculative fiction need. She can write in any genre she chooses and does them all well. Missing the first time you ventured into... [ ]