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The Daily Beast - A little F. Scott Fitzgerald for May Day
The Daily Beast - Horror master M.R. James saved his scariest tale for Easter
The Daily Beast - Victor Hugo, architecture, the architecture of prose
The Washington Post - What the suicide of John Kennedy Toole says about publishing fifty years later
The Daily Beast - How Stendhal captured love
The Daily Beast - The brilliant. brief diary of ballet dancer Vaslav Nijinsky
The Washington Post - John Keats and the perfect poem for Valentine's Day
The Daily Beast - The sexton who was Ebenezer Scrooge before Scrooge was Scrooge
The Washington Post - The joys of rereading Little Women at Christmastime
The Daily Beast - The thrilling race to discover DNA
The Daily Beast - The history-distorting Thanksgiving poem of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The American Interest - The scariest radio program in American history
The Daily Beast - The bewitching, liminal subgenre where horror meets comedy
The Daily Beast - A rereading of "Casey at the Bat"
The Smart Set - Sailing the seas within
The Daily Beast - A baseball diary for the sports lit canon
The Barnes and Noble Review - The making of 2001: A Space Odyssey
The American Interest - Imagination policing in publishing and the real reasons people do not read
The Daily Beast - William Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury as the ultimate Easter novel
The Daily Beast - Miles Davis and the best autobiography by a musician
Glimmer Train - Writing in your head as you walk
The Daily Beast - How Dylan Thomas invented the audio book at Christmas
The Daily Beast - Overlooked short fiction for Halloween
The Daily Beast - William Sloane and the perfect horror novel for fall
The Daily Beast - Could F. Scott Fitzgerald rescue modern fiction?
The San Francisco Chronicle - A biography of Thoreau
The San Francisco Chronicle - Karl Ove Knausgaard is comically bad at writing
The Weekly Standard - The hilarity of Booth Tarkington's Seventeen and Penrod novels
The Philadelphia Inquirer - The Mysteries of Paris, a fat, fascinating, ripping yarn from 1842 that reads excellently in 2016
The Smart Set - John Keats and a very special Christmas letter
The Smart Set - Conan Doyle's final Sherlock Holmes stories
The Barnes and Noble Review - Collecting the blues
The Boston Globe - A miracle over at Fenway