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Tumblr of the Week: Better Book Titles
NewsFeed has a confession: This is probably our favorite Tumblr of the Week of all time.
End to the ‘East Egg’ Party: Daisy Buchanan’s Great Gatsby Mansion to Be Demolished
It’s time to give up our fantasies of attending lavish prohibition era parties with Jay Gatsby and Daisy Buchanan.
Quotes: Writer Murong Xuecun on Censorship in China
“I call this ‘castrated writing’ — I am a proactive eunuch, I have already castrated myself even before the surgeon raises his scalpel.”
MURONG XUECUN, Chinese writer, in a speech on censorship and self-censorship. Murong …
Every Sentence of Jack Kerouac’s On the Road, Retold for Bros
What would On the Road have been like if Kerouac’s anti-heroes had access to Four Loko?
Should France Honor Great Writing, Despite its Anti-Semitic Author?
Should a country celebrate the work of one of its most venerated writers of the 20th century, even if he was also notorious as a vociferous anti-Semite?
Google Doodle: Happy Birthday Robert Louis Stevenson
Wondering what’s up with today’s Google Doodle? The pirate themed graphic is in honor of Robert Louis Stevenson’s 160th birthday!
National Novel Writing Month: Can You Pen 50,000 Words in 26 Days?
Come on, it’s easy: That’s not even 2,000 words a day. NewsFeed knows you can do it!
Tony Blair In The Running For Bad Sex Award
There’s nothing worse than a bad sex scene. At least that’s what the judges for the UK Literary Review’s Bad Sex Awards think.
Quotes: Unfinished Manuscript of Millenium Trilogy Exists
“To make it more complicated, this book number four, that’s book number five, because he thought that was more fun to write than book number four.”
— JOAKIM LARSSON, brother of Girl with the Dragon Tattoo author Stieg Larsson, …
Mario Vargas Llosa Wins Nobel Prize For Literature
Some may not have heard of him, but 74-year-old Peruvian Mario Vargas Llosa has repeatedly been hailed one of South America’s most influential writers.
Jonathan Franzen’s Glasses Thief Speaks, Reveals The Workings Of His Criminal Mind
The miscreant who stole Jonathan Franzen’s famous eyeglasses has finally opened up with his side of the story. Why did he do it? Because was drunk.