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12 Books That Should Go On a Literary Voyager Spacecraft Golden Record

The Voyager Spacecraft, both launched in 1977, are famous for carrying phonograph records with them. These records contained a collection ...

Nobel Prize Trivia Time!

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Confessions of a Once-Tyrannical English Teacher

What happened when one English Teacher let his students choose what books to read after years of toughing out assigned readings.

Black Authors’ Best B-Sides

Less famous books by famous Black women.

Books that Go Bump in the Night

I’m not into the truly scary stuff. Stephen King creeps the f out of me, and I pretty much had ...

5 Nobel Prize Acceptance Speeches From Some Literary Giants

In recent weeks, we’ve posted video guides to authors like William Faulkner and Seamus Heaney, which included their Nobel Prize ...

Show and Tell: Our Favorite Autographed Books

Autographed books are sort of a weird thing, if you think about it. It’s not like a book doesn’t already ...

On the “Banned” Wagon: The Month in Book Challenges

Banned Books Week is a annual “celebration” to raise awareness about books that have been challenged or banned — it’s ...

A Brief History of (Novelists on the Cover of) TIME

A brief history of novelists appearing on TIME Magazine's cover, including Graham Greene, J.D. Salinger, Toni Morrison, and Stephen King.

If Famous Authors Read One-Star Reviews of Their Books

It seems like every couple months I see a post go around about Amazon one-star reviews of classic books. Recently ...