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Maps of Murder: Mystery Book Cartography and the Notebooks of Agatha Christie
Some of us (judging from the comment thread on our best-of-YA-fiction post, a lot of us) may have spent an obscenely large percentage of our childhoods shining flashlights under covers and making...
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Required Reading: Fictional Detectives Who Won't Bore You to Death
As with all popular detective stories — whether published or televised, self-serious or haplessly stoned — Bored to Death’s success rides on the charm of its central hero. Although the ever-bumbling...
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Required Reading: 8 Surprising Serialized Stories
Charles Burns’ X’ed Out is not something to curl up in your back pocket for a quick read on the subway. Each panel weaves abstract concepts into the story of an aspiring teen poet/artist whose growing...
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Books That Inspired Fashion Designers
As Virginia Woolf writes in Orlando: “Vain trifles as they seem, clothes have, they say, more important offices than merely to keep us warm.” In this way, Coco Chanel was correct when she purportedly...
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A Peek Inside Famous Writers' Homes
Last month, The New York Times ran a slideshow of Norman Mailer’s Brooklyn Heights apartment, which will be up for sale shortly. This got us thinking about our favorite authors, where they lived, and...
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Gallery: Famous Writers as Handcrafted Dolls
Tipped off by a Facebook post by literary scene fixture Miss Sara Rosen, we just discovered the most amazing treasure trove of handcrafted, miniature versions of some of our favorite writers of all...
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A Beginner’s Guide to Crime Fiction
Everyone needs a little mystery in their lives. Like any immense body of work, however (and boy is it immense), we’ve always been a little intimidated about diving into the crime/mystery genre. Luckily...
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Authors on the Importance of Writing the Final Chapter First
Writing isn’t necessarily a linear process. History shows that authors frequently composed their novels by writing or conceptualizing the final chapter or sentence first. Today marks the 77th...
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50 Essential Mystery Novels That Everyone Should Read
In these weeks of midwinter, there’s nothing more satisfying than curling up by the fire with a good novel — and in particular a good mystery novel, because they somehow seem to keep you the warmest....
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25 Famous Tea Drinkers on Nature’s Best Beverage
Snowstorms continue to ravage the East Coast, destroying social lives and ruining shoes with rock salt. What’s the cure for the winter doldrums? Sometimes only a hot cuppa will do. We’re talking tea,...
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The Many Literary Adaptations of Orson Welles
It’s notable that in My Lunches With Orson — the collection of taped conversations between Orson Welles and Henry Jaglom in the last years of the Citizen Kane director’s life — Welles mentions writers...
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50 of the Greatest Literary Moments on TV
It’s probably safe to say that media tends to refer to itself, in one way or another — and referring to literature, as opposed to other forms of pop culture, is one way to make just about anything a...
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“An Endless Succession of Magnificent Possibilities”: Why We Love Vacation...
“Something tells me we’re not going to like this place,” declares Rosemary Hoyt’s mother in the first spoken words of Fitzgerald’s Tender Is the Night. “I want to go home anyway,” Rosemary replies....
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25 Photos of Famous Authors in Uniform
What is it about a uniform? They can be practical, decorative, honorific, or just something you found lying around — but they always make the wearer look a little bit better. Especially if that wearer...
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For Love of an Author: The Value of Being a Completist
I finished reading Jane Austen’s major works (and unfinished novels) in ninth grade, with Mansfield Park, and thereby officially became a completist, although I later read more of her juvenilia and...
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Agatha Christie’s Mystery Masterpiece ‘And Then There Were None’ Getting...
Agatha Christie’s 1939 novel And Then There Were None, the world’s best-selling mystery novel and heralded as the English author’s masterpiece, is being adapted for film. Imitation Game director Morten...
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Kenneth Branagh to Direct and Star in ‘Murder on the Orient Express’ Remake
Agatha Christie’s Murder on the Orient Express will be getting a fourth film adaptation, with Kenneth Branagh set to star and direct the picture. The Shakespearian actor will play the role of Belgian...
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50 Gripping Books to Read While Traveling
Well, boys and girls, we’ve entered the season of travel. Whether you’re heading home or to a loved one’s (or, hey, to Key West with a hot date) for the holidays, you’ll likely need a gripping,...
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30 Photos of Famous Authors in Epic Hats
Recently, I saw this hilarious photo of author Bohumil Hrabal tweeted by New Directions. In it, the author sits outside at his typewriter with a gruff look on his face, wearing possibly one of the best...
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Amazon Is Making a Series of Agatha Christie’s ‘Ordeal By Innocence’— with...
Beyond Whole Foods, IMDB, Box Office Mojo, Goodreads, and your mind, Amazon also now owns a whole lot of fictional murdered British people: the company has purchased the rights to a bulk of material by...
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