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Michael Grass | Posted 11.14.2011

Read More: John F. Kennedy, David Catania, Randi Miller, District of Columbia, Patricia McGuire, DC Region, DC Media, Henry James, Frederick Douglass, Philippa Hughes, HuffPost DC, DC News
Michael Grass

As Henry James wrote, "Washington talks about herself, and about nothing else." At HuffPost DC, we hope to make sense of all that conversation, and host the discussion, too.

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Famous Authors Related by Blood or Marriage

Dave Astor | Posted 10.21.2011

Read More: Daphne Du Maurier, Stephen King, Svengali, John Cheever, Henry James, Mary Shelley, Twilight Zone, Joan Didion, Jane Eyre, George Du Maurier, Famous Authors, Angela's Ashes, Bronte Sisters, Wuthering Heights, Frank Mccourt, Alice Walker, Alexandre Dumas, Richard Matheson, Rod Serling, Books News
Dave Astor

The Bronte sisters weren't alone in blood being as thick as ink.

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Top 10 Tales Of Americans In Europe

guardian.co.uk | Esi Edugyan | Posted 09.12.2011

Read More: A Portrait of a Lady, Saul Bellow, Ernest Hemingway, Americans, James Baldwin, Esi Edugyan, Half Blood Blues, Mark Twain, Europe, Henry James, A Moveable Feast, Americans in Europe, Books News

From Henry James to James Baldwin, the novelist chooses the best books exploring the New World's romance with 'that dazzling, elusive, imaginary place...

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Turn of the Screw Gets a Stunning New Turn at LA Opera

Rodney Punt | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Patricia Racette, Benjamin Britten, Glyndebourne, Opera, LA Opera, Mark Henderson, La Around Town, Paul Brown, The Turn of the Screw, Henry James, Same-Sex Relationships, Jonathan Kent, William Burden, James Conlon, Francesca Gilpin, RODNEY PUNT, Arts News
Rodney Punt

The Turn of the Screw's LA Opera production is a game-changer. Its musical realization is first rate, allowing the work to shine as a towering masterpiece.

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The Droll Insight Of Trollope

Richard C. Morais | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Nathaniel Hawthorne, Barchester Chronicles, Henry James, Brooklyn, Buddhaland Brooklyn, Anthony Trollope, Books News
Richard C. Morais

To be so amused and enlightened by the political machinations of the Barchester clergy is priceless. But to do so for the price of a Taco Bell burrito makes this Kindle offer one of the best bargains around.

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Exclusive Interview

Anis Shivani | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Gay Literature, Homosexuality, International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, Short Story Writing, Short Story Collections, South Asian Immigrants, Brooklyn, Colm Toibin, Immigrant Fiction, Irish Writers, Henry James, Gay Fiction, LGBT Issues, Authors, Literary Prizes, Books News
Anis Shivani

I think fiction lends itself to messiness rather than the ideal, and plays well with the ironies surrounding what happens versus what should happen.

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Confessions of a Book Slut

Lev Raphael | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: New York Times Book Review, Nero, Twitter, John Le Carré, Rome, Books, American History, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Iggy Pop, Sarah Waters, Dickens, Facebook, Henry James, Public Radio, Book Reviews, Mfa Programs, Reading, Books News
Lev Raphael

For as long as I can remember, I was a monogamous reader. I'd start a book and read it straight through no matter how much time that took. Now I'm a book slut.

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Penguin Re-Releases The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

Cynthia Ellis | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Brangelina, Avatar, Wilkie Collins, The Sopranos, People Magazine, The Woman in White, Broadway, Charles Dickens, John Sutherland, Kauai, All the Year Round, Penguin Classics, Henry James, Matthew Sweet, Amazon, Sarah Jessica Parker, Alfred Hitchcock, New York Review of Magazines, Mad Men, James Wilkie Broderick, US Weekly, The Godfather, West End, Nora Ephron, Abraham Lincoln, Cynthia Ellis, Star Magazine, A Tale of Two Cities, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Six Feet Under, Matthew Broderick, Barack Obama, Jonathan Franzen, 3d, Books News
Cynthia Ellis

Reading The Woman in White is not unlike being in a cage surrounded by sharks, if you could somehow eat crème brulee at the same time. It is exquisitely uncomfortable.

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Top 10 Ghost Stories

guardian.co.uk | Kate Mosse | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Dickens, Charles Dickens, The-Tell-Tale-Heart, Scary Stories, Henry James, Edgar Allen Poe, Mystery Stories, Wharton, Poe, Ghost Stories, The Turn of the Screw, Edith Wharton, Books News

The celebrated author of novels such as "The House of Mirth", Wharton was also a terrific writer of ghostly tales. A blend of Poe, Hawthorne and Henry...

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Henry James Meets Jack the Ripper -- Maybe

Carol Hoenig | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: What Alice Knew, Henry James, Paula Marantz Cohen, Jack the Ripper, Fiction, Books News
Carol Hoenig

Admittedly, I do not read many mysteries, but this particular one, which is steeped in history and offers another consideration on who the notorious murderer may have been, had me intrigued.

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From Jane Austen to Henry James: A Writer’s Journey

Paula Marantz Cohen | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Austen Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austin, Wings of the Dove, Paula Marantz Cohen, Books, Jack the Ripper, Henry James, Jane Austen, Turn of the Screw, Austen Persuasion, Persuasion, Pride and Prejudice, Books News
Paula Marantz Cohen

Jane Austen, with her elegant novelistic structure and unerring wit, was my first teacher. My greatest influence in the realm of ideas was Henry James.

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Top 10 Unreliable Narrators

The Guardian | Henry Sutton | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Henry Sutton, Nabokov, Lolita, American Psycho, Books, Catcher in the Rye, Henry James, Unreliable Narrators, Humbert Humbert, Narrators, Books News

Something strange happened to unreliable narrators in the mid-20th century: they became a little more reliably unreliable, and a lot nastier. In the l...

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The Awkward Age

Daniel Krotz | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Arkansas, The Awkward Age, Aging, Bucket List, Henry James, Bookseller, Berryville, The Balanced Life, Healthy Living News
Daniel Krotz

I'm caught between a lingering fantasy of a Roman Holiday, and the aspirations of a Care Consultant who hopes I am infirm enough to require batteries for effective locomotion. Goodness, what an awkward age!

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Video Books, or Vooks: Do We Need to Watch Books as Well as Read Them?

David Finkle | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: William Makepeace Thackeray, Vooks, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Gone With the Wind, Margaret Mitchell, Piers Plowman, Reading, Truman Capote, Video Books, William Langland, George Eliot, Vivien Leigh, Henry James, Audrey Hepburn, Anthony Trollope, Books News
David Finkle

It would be a sin -- practically a capital crime -- to write off masterpieces because no one has the patience for the sentences Marcel Proust had the patience to craft so scrupulously.

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Unrequited Love: Is There Ever an Upside?

Robert Fuller | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Court, Unrequited Love, Suitor, Love, Henry James, Yeats, Courtship, Suit, Style News
Robert Fuller

No suitor wants to admit it, but those who don't return our love often give us something as valuable as those who do.

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Hillary + Obama = High Drama

Arianna Huffington | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Obama Cabinet, Hillary Clinton, Obama Cabinet Picks, Henry James, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton Secretary of State, Obama Transition, Politics News
Arianna Huffington

Hillary's appointment isn't even official, but the Obama/Clinton narrative has already left the realm of politics. Its twists, turns, shadings, and complex emotions are the stuff of literature.

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