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Wednesday, June 10, 2015
Jane Austen Receives Feedback From Tim, A Guy In Her MFA Workshop
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Just a couple notes.
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Dear Jane,
I don't usually read chick lit, but I didn't hate reading this draft of your novel, which you're calling Pride and Prejudice. I really liked the part where Elizabeth and her aunt and uncle went on a road trip, which reminded me of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales (also about a road trip — check it...
Juan Felipe Herrera Becomes The First Latino Poet Laureate Of The United States
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Juan Felipe Herrera, the author of 28 books of poetry, novels, and most recently “Portraits of Hispanic American Heroes,” will become the first Latino poet laureate of the United States, the Library of Congress announced Wednesday.
Herrera will succeed Charles Wright in the country’s highest honor in poetry. Herrera was the poet laureate of California from 2012 to 2015.
“I...
Can You Complete The Book Title?
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Time to really test your knowledge of books.
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53 Of The Best Opening Lines In Literature
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“All this happened, more or less.” —Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
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2. "The war in Zagreb began over a pack of cigarettes."
—Girl at War by Sara Nović
3. "Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice."
—100 Years of Solitude...
These Female Writers Want To Stop “Chick Lit” Being Used To Describe Work By Women
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BuzzFeed News spoke to a number of authors about the term after Marian Keyes called it out as pejorative.
Bestselling novelist Marian Keyes recently called the term “chick lit” derogatory and now other female writers are expressing how much they dislike the term.
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Some believe books by women are often sidelined and not taken as seriously as those...
What Do You Wish You Could Ask J.K. Rowling?
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But actually, why are Hufflepuffs badgers?
J.K. Rowling is one of those amazing people that everyone wants to ask a billion questions to.
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Maybe you want to know what the deal was with the brains in a tank in the Department of Mysteries.
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Or do you want to know more about other Wizarding schools around the world?
Warner...
Twitter Had A Lot Of Fun Imagining Jeb Bush In English Class
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The former governor of Florida’s controversial comments in his 1995 book sparked a hypothetical debate on Twitter.
One of the reasons more young women are giving birth out of wedlock and more young men are walking away from their paternal obligations is that there is no longer a stigma attached to this behavior, no reason to feel shame. Many of these young women and young men look around and see...
To All "Game Of Thrones" Book-Readers: The End Is Nigh
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RIP our knowledge. Spoilers for all published A Song of Ice and Fire books.
Look, A Song of Ice and Fire readers who also like Game of Thrones. It's time to give up. We can count and the numbers don't look good.
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The show is going to overtake the books, and it's going to do it next season. The show's already doing it now! We're out of book...
Thanks To J.K. Rowling, Dumbledore And Gandalf Got Married This Weekend
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It’s the most magical union in all of the fictional wizarding world. And it all became possible thanks to J.K. Rowling’s twitter domination.
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Here's What Happens When You Ask Mamrie Hart To Make You A Drink
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New author and YouTube cutie Mamrie Hart stopped by to teach us how to make five delicious summer cocktails.
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Mamrie Hart, YouTube's cocktail superstar, recently published a book all about her "boozy misadventures."
You Deserve A Drink is chock full of her best drinking stories. Each chapter comes with a corresponding recipe, so it feels a lot...
We're Going To Learn More About The American Hogwarts In "Fantastic Beasts"
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J.K. Rowling tweeted about the American Wizarding school that plays a role in Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them.
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, the Harry Potter spin-off movie that fans are waiting *very* patiently to see, doesn't hit theaters until November 2016.
The film — which is based on the book written by Rowling — takes place 70 years prior to the...
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