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

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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

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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 Literary Classics We (Not So) Secretly Hate

10 Literary Classics We (Not So) Secretly Hate

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Does <em>The Virgin Suicides</em> Hold Up 25 Years Later?

Does The Virgin Suicides Hold Up 25 Years Later?

Rereading Jeffrey Eugenides's Debut Novel in 2018

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10 Authors Whose Best Work Was Published Posthumously

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10 Books to Read by Living Women (Instead of These 10 by Dead Men)

10 Books to Read by Living Women (Instead of These 10 by Dead Men)

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

100 Covers of Gabriel García Márquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude

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30 Books for Americans' 10 Most-Visited Countries

30 Books for Americans' 10 Most-Visited Countries

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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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(Yes, We Are Aware of the National Book Awards)

By Emily Temple | March 2, 2018

The 50 Best One-Star Amazon Reviews of Thomas Pynchon's <em>Gravity's Rainbow</em>

The 50 Best One-Star Amazon Reviews of Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow

And the Lone Crusader Defending the Book's Honor in the Comments

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20 Literary Adaptations Disavowed by Their Original Authors

20 Literary Adaptations Disavowed by Their Original Authors

White-washing, Misquoting, Miscasting, and Other Sins of Hollywood

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