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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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Jumping on the Slow Reading Bandwagon

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Why Don't More Writers Buy Books?

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The Very Long History of Emoticons

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A Summer Reading Forecast

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Should We Care About Grammar and Spelling on Twitter?

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The Problem of Free Books

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Whose Words Are These?

There are so many different definitions of plagiarism-and so much written about it-that it can be hard to separate original writing from things...

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The Art of Forged Signatures

What one forgery scam can tell us about the tradition of author signatures-and where we go from here. This week's column comes...

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Death of the Author

With J.D. Salinger, how can we separate the author from his writing? And now that he's dead, should we even try? I have written about J.D....

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Haiti: A Reading List

How we can help Haiti move forward, through understanding. By now we all realize that poverty, not just the Richter Scale,...

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Women Writers or Male Sex Scenes: Which Would You Read?

How Kate Roiphe silenced a serious discussion about sexism. We should be past this by now-it's 2010-but it appears the question...

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The Decade in Literature

Ten years of literary innovation, fudged memoirs, and digital reading. The Aughts saw the birth of readerly social networking, a...

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Saving Poetry (and Poetry)

A holiday shout-out to the Tudors, independent magazines, and charitable giving. I have been going through a Tudor phase. It started when I...

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Schoolhouse Rock and Beyond

What we don't know about early America Sometimes I think my conception of Revolutionary America was imprinted on my brain by...

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Off to the Poe Houses

Halloween + Literature = Edgar Allan Poe, right? If you would like to get to know the author better this weekend, you have an...

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The SAT and Its Discontents

What could we gain by abandoning the test's timed essay? Better writers. "Although most people's goal is to be happy at all...

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