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Martin Goldsmith's outstanding 1939 novel, Detour, which because the basis for the classic 1945 film noir

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Our depressing trend of talking and writing in the exact same dozen phrases and what it says about us

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A little F. Scott Fitzgerald for May Day

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Horror master M.R. James saved his scariest tale for Easter

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Victor Hugo, architecture, the architecture of prose

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What the suicide of John Kennedy Toole says about publishing fifty years later

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J.P. Donleavy's Fairy Tale of New York and the perfect St. Patrick's Day mix

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How Stendhal captured love

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The brilliant. brief diary of ballet dancer Vaslav Nijinsky

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John Keats and the perfect poem for Valentine's Day

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 The sexton who was Ebenezer Scrooge before Scrooge was Scrooge

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A merry little Christmas tale of friendship between Sherlock Holmes and John Watson