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PHOTOS: Epic Literary Mustaches

| Posted 01.20.2012

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By Alison Nastasi for Flavorwire: Happy birthday to Gothic lit god Edgar Allan Poe, whose chilling tales have influenced innumerable artists of eve...

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Are You a "Real" Writer?

Eliezer Sobel | Posted 01.11.2012

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Writers learn early on that there are actually many people out there, incomprehensible as it may seem, who simply do not enjoy reading our work. (We p...

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Patti Smith's Peaceable Kingdom

Dorothy Spears | Posted 12.26.2011

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For the opening of her exhibit, Patti Smith: Camera Solo at the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford, CT last week, Patti Smith gave a concert celebrating essential connections between art, music, and literature.

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10 Books You Really Should Have Read In High School: An Alternate List

flavorwire.com | Posted 10.08.2011

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This week, we came across this list of ‘books you really should have read in high school’ over at MSNBC’s Today Books. While their picks are def...

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The Stockholm Syndrome Theory Of Long Novels

themillions.com | Posted 07.16.2011

Read More: Bestsellers, Gravity's Rainbow, Stockholm Syndrome, Dostoevsky, Infinite Jest, War and Peace, Tolstoy, Long Novels, Reading Books, Books News

I used to be the kind of reader who gives short shrift to long novels. I used to take a wan pleasure in telling friends who had returned from a tour o...

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Meet The Graphics Guru Who Is Revolutionizing The Way We See Data

The Information Sage | Posted 07.13.2011

Read More: Philosophy, Jack Abramoff, Graphic Design, Obama Administration, Earl Devaney, Graphics Guru, War and Peace, Tolstoy, Edward Tufte, Books News

One day in the spring of 2009, Edward Tufte, the statistician and graphic design theorist, took the train from his home in Cheshire, Connecticut, to W...

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Thinking About War and Peace

Norman MacAfee | Posted 06.13.2011

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When I first saw Bondarchuk's "War and Peace," in 1968, in New York, it was presented in two parts and ran six hours. You went in the afternoon, broke for dinner, then came back for the rest. It was stupendous.

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American Publishing: A Lesson From Tolstoy's Inkwell

Dan Agin | Posted 05.25.2011

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The collapse of Borders is akin to the collapse of Lehman Brothers on Wall Street, and it suggests that too many people in American publishing don't know what the hell they're doing.

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Keep Away From Women: Among Tolstoy's 10 Rules Of Life

Boing Boing | Mark Frauenfelder | Posted 05.25.2011

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Gretchen Rubin, author of The Happiness Project (a book about how to be more happy and grateful, which I enjoyed very much) ran this list of Tolstoy's...

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'Celebrity Chekov'

nydailynews.com | Gatecrasher | Posted 05.25.2011

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In "Celebrity Chekhov," out Tuesday from Harper Perennial, Ben Greenman, an editor at The New Yorker, has adapted the Russian literary great's 19th-c...

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WATCH: Denis Leary Says...

The Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

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Denis Leary is at it again, this time in his own book trailer for "Suck On This Year." He says people only pretend to read Franzen and other things th...

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Under The Influence

The Huffington Post | Gabe Habash | Posted 05.25.2011

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Writing a book is usually a long, hair-pulling affair for the author. But in the end, only one name appears on the front of the book: their own. What...

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Tolstoy Fled In The Middle Of The Night 100 Years Ago Today

Gabe Habash | Posted 05.25.2011

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Today, on October 28, exactly 100 years ago, Leo Tolstoy disappeared in the middle of the night. He was found two days later in a monastery; his flig...

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Nobel Prize Snubs In Literature

Posted 05.25.2011

Since 1901, the Nobel Committee has honored outstanding individuals in the fields of science, peace and literature with a medal, personal diploma, cas...

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'I Am A Woman!'

Cathy Porter | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Russia, Anna Karenina, Russians, Memoir, Leo Tolstory, Translator, War and Peace, Brothers Karamazov, Slidepollajax, Translation, Tolstoy, Russian Authors, Great Writers, Sofia Tolstoy, Books News

It may be that we would have had none of his great novels without her, but it's her candid account of their 48-year marriage that makes her diaries so compelling.

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David Foster Wallace Thought Readers Are Smart And Tolstoy Was His Role Model

Posted 05.25.2011

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Smarter than You Think Wyatt Mason The New York Review of Books Although of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself: A Road Trip with David Foster Wallac...

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"War and Peace" Doesn't Have To Be Hard

Salon | Laura Miller | Posted 05.25.2011

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Many people swear that, come summer, they'll finally get around to reading a classic work of literature they missed during their student years; "War a...

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Love Stories: Esther Freud, Author Of 'Hideous Kinky' Picks 10 Favorite

The Guardian | Esther Freud | Posted 05.25.2011

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"The love stories that have stayed with me are the ones that broke my heart. Novels that managed to create the unbearable longing of two people to be ...

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What Obama's Reading: Are The Books Influencing Policy?

The Washington Post | Tevi Troy | Posted 05.25.2011

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As the battle over health-care reform crescendoed last month, President Obama let slip that he was still making time for some side reading. "We've bee...

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Huffington Post Readers' Picks: 13 Great Overlooked Books By Famous Authors (PHOTOS, POLL)

The Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

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Last week, we posted a list of 12 great books by famous authors that are often overlooked by popular culture, and we were happy to see that HuffPost r...

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Russia Forgets Tolstoy?

Telegraph UK | Andrew Osborn | Posted 05.25.2011

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Tolstoy is better appreciated in the West, academics claim, even though Western readers discovered classics such as War and Peace a good century after...

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Sophia Tolstoy: Not the Woman You Thought She Was

Alexandra Popoff | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Biography, Tolstoy, Leo Tolstoy, Sophia Tolstoy, Books, War and Peace, Anna Karenina, Books News

Sophia's life has been long misinterpreted, so my goal was to provide accurate information and tell her true story.

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Influences: Angelic and Demonic

Barbara Probst Solomon | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Jean Malaquais, Jane Austen, Michael Lennon, Zola, Mary Mccarthy, Picasso, Helen Mirren, J.D. Salinger, Aleksandar Hemon, Blanche DuBois, Jill Scott, Jean-Paul Sartre, John Updike, Philip Roth, Humphrey Bogart, Mma Ramotswe, The Three Weissmanns of Westport, Otto Abetz, Saul Bellow, The Beat Generation, Emma Bovary, Sense and Sensibility, Norman Mailer, Dreyfus Affair, Henri Matisse, Marcel Proust, Tolstoy, William Faulkner, Celine, Cathleen Schine, Baudelaire, Petain, Malraux, Huysmans, Stendahl, Simenon, Gides, Dannecker, Flaubert, Laval, Books News

Salinger gave my generation a permission to write about our lives, our very ordinary adolescent times. He gave us our voice, our right to be serious in our own postwar, perhaps over-privileged, tones.

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The Susan Boyle Story And Why We Love Rags-To-Riches Authors

The Millions | Tat Jana Soli | Posted 05.25.2011

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It has come to my attention that a favorite interview question for authors, especially debut authors, is what you did before you were a published. The...

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Back to Basics on Valentine's Day

Daniel Bruno Sanz | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Ruben Blades, Tolstoy, The Temptations, William Shakespeare, Dating, Personal Relationships, Internet Dating, Ray Charles, Valentine's Day, The Moonglows, Style News

I...can turn a gray sky blue. I can make it rain... whenever I want it to. I can build a castle from a single grain of sand; I can make a ship sail.....

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