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12 Literary Plagiarism Scandals, Ranked

12 Literary Plagiarism Scandals, Ranked

From Hellen Keller to Jonah Lehrer, Some More Legitimate Than Others

By Emily Temple | March 29, 2018

Essential Writing Advice from Virginia Woolf

Essential Writing Advice from Virginia Woolf

"For heaven’s sake, publish nothing before you are thirty."

By Emily Temple | March 28, 2018

"Fear is Good Quality Control." Colson Whitehead on the Writer's Life

"I'd rather have a fucked-up paragraph than no paragraph at all."

By Emily Temple | March 27, 2018

How to Visit the Graves of 75 Famous Writers

How to Visit the Graves of 75 Famous Writers

From crypts to hillsides to the Schomburg Center

By Emily Temple | March 26, 2018

Here Are the 2018 Whiting Award Winners

Here Are the 2018 Whiting Award Winners

10 Emerging Writers Will Receive Grants of $50,000 Each

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25 of the Most Expensive Books You Can Buy on the Internet

25 of the Most Expensive Books You Can Buy on the Internet

In Case You've Got Some Extra Money Lying Around

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10 Authors Whose Best Work Was Published Posthumously

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100 Covers of Gabriel García Márquez's <em>One Hundred Years of Solitude</em>

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Announcing the Second Annual Honey & Wax Book Collecting Prize

Announcing the Second Annual Honey & Wax Book Collecting Prize

Awarded to a book collection conceived and built by a young woman

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If They Gave Oscars to Books, Our 2017 Nominees

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