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After reading a somewhat pithy and entertainingly disappointing post on Flavorwire about the 10 Epidemically Overrated Books, I was in ...
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The Independent Foreign Fiction Prize is different from other literary awards in a few ways: Unlike The Pulitzer Prize, there’s definitely going ...
One of the many many things I like about The Simpsons is that there isn’t any single character that the writers want ...
My earliest memory of accumulating enough capital to be able to go buy something on my own ended with a ...