Bookstores can be a destination upon themselves. From Venice to Mexico City, check out some of the most interesting book retailers out there. 1 Libreria Acqua Alta, Venice, Italy. This bookstore features classic volumes of American and Italian books packed in traditional Venetian gondola boats. But the show-stopping attraction is the back of the […]
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While American currency features former U.S. Presidents, Founding Fathers, and iconic landmarks, many other countries put famous writers, poets, artists, and novelists on their banknotes. 1. HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN // DENMARK Danish author Hans Christian Andersen is mostly known for his classic fairy tales like \”Thumbelina,\” \”The Little Mermaid,\” and \”The Emperor\’s New Clothes,\” which
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While your Flavorwire editors take a much-needed holiday break, we\’ll spend the next two weekends revisiting some of our most popular features of the year. This post was originally published September 3, 2011.] We recently read an article over at We Made This in which Nick Hornby writes that “the days of the iconic jacket illustration, the image that
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Watch the famous poet from the Harlem Renaissance read his poem \”The Weary Blues,\” while the Doug Parker Band plays jazz in the background.
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There may be no more a macabrely misogynistic sentence in English literature than Edgar Allan Poe’s contention that “the death… of a beautiful woman” is “unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world.” (His perhaps ironic observation prompted Sylvia Plath to write, over a hundred years later, “The woman is perfected / Her dead /
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Shakespeare’s life is as full of fiction as his plays are. In fact, historians have taken decades to separate the legends and bawdy stories from fact. Some of the juiciest tales are now debunked, while others are new theories to fill in the holes in his biography. Here are five “to-be-or-not” stories of the bard.
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In this short excerpt from a Q&A as University of Virginia’s first Writer-in-Residence, Faulkner talks about The Sound and the Fury, and why it was his favorite novel. Listen to the full recording here.
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Here’s Flannery O’Connor reading her short story “A Good Man is Hard to Find\” at Vanderbilt University in 1959.
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And here’s Jack Kerouac on the The Steve Allen Plymouth Show in 1959. After awkwardly answering questions while Steve Allen tinkles on the piano, he gives a terrific reading from On The Road and Visions of Cody while jazz plays in the background. You gotta love that ending: “I think of Dean Mor-i-ar-ty.”
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Oodles of things have been written about Charles Dickens (1812-1870) and words are never enough. He was a wordsmith alright, something admitted by everyone who has read his masterpieces. When it comes to hardships, calamities and unfairness Dickens is the first one to come to mind. He is the only one whose name has
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