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Portraits of Freedom: An Intimate Photo Exploration of Emancipation

A look at the images that reflect everyday life for African Americans pre and post slavery.

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The Dharma Bum's Passport Photo and the Value of Wanderlust

Jack Kerouac used his experience traveling around the U.S. and beyond to serve as inspiration for his many novels.

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Smooches in the Stacks: Why the Public Library is a First Date Homerun

Need a first date idea? This roundup of the world's best libraries will give you plenty of inspiration.

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A Hunk of Bookish Love: Oldest Presley Autograph Found in Library Shelves

This library card of Elvis Presley's shows the crooner in a more academic light

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Meet Literary Jukebox, a Daily Dose of Art Discovery

Sometimes a good book sings louder with the right soundtrack. Now there's a highly personal website dishing out daily pairings of lit and song.

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Protesters Are Awesome: Banned Books Back in Egypt and Tunisia

Banned books return to Tunisia and Egypt, signifying an ease on censorship in the newly dictatorless countries.

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Food for Thinkers: Food Writing Gets Hot and Heavy

The fiction writer Scott Geiger explores how words take on the texture and sensory richness of food in Thomas Wolfe's novel Look Homeward, Angel.

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Can 2010's Biggest Books Save Your Life?

Here's what happens when you mix guns and literature.

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Victorian Romance Between Data and Literature

Two historians are charting how frequently words like "God," "love," "work," and "science" appear in turn-of-the-century Victorian literature.

A Skeptic's Guide to Writers' Houses, in Photos

In A Skeptic's Guide to Writers' Houses, Anne Trubek visits homes of greats from Poe to Twain to Hemingway, and the past smashes into the present.

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What Are the Best New Blogs on the Internet?

Bygone Bureau talks with bloggers to determine 2010's best new additions to your RSS.

Quidditch World Cup Takes Manhattan Should Quidditch be an NCAA Sport? The Real-Life World Cup of a Fictional Sport

Thousands of somewhat athletic Harry Potter fans donned silly outfits and custom brooms to participate in the real life Quidditch World Cup.

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GOOD Design Daily: Jonathan Safran Foer Die-Cuts One Book into Another

Jonathan Safran Foer used die-cutting to literally carve his new book, Tree of Codes, from the pages of Bruno Schulz's Street of Crocodiles.

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David Foster Wallace on the Endlessly Entertaining Illinois State Fair

A peripatetic feeding frenzy of shaved ice, cotton candy, gyros, stuffed jalepenos, chitlins, Krakkles, funnel cakes, and more.

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Contest: Send Us a 200-Word Review of Jonathan Franzen's Freedom (Deadline Wednesday)

GOOD's Book Club needs your clever reviews of the brick of a book, Freedom. Deadline is Wednesday, and there are prizes (and glory) to be had.