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10 of Our Favorite Profiles of Ten of Our Favorite Writers
This week, like everyone we know, we fell head over heels for Joel Lovell’s wonderful profile of Flavorpill favorite George Saunders in The New York Times Magazine. What with that and his amazing new...
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The Books Flavorwire Staffers Read Too Early
Earlier this week, writer Matthue Roth published My First Kafka: Runaways, Rodents, and Giant Bugs, a collection of Kafka stories re-told for children. This is a brilliant idea, since anyone exposed to...
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10 Compelling Unnamed Protagonists in Literature
Happy birthday, Ralph Ellison. The late author is perhaps most famous for his 1952 existentialist novel, Invisible Man, which touched upon issues facing African-Americans, as told through one man’s...
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The 50 Best Southern Novels Ever Written
The American South has long been seen as the focus of the country’s Civil Rights Movement, carrying with it the stigma of poverty, racism, and anti-intellectualism. Yet the region has also produced a...
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7 Great One-Hit Wonder Novelists
Do you ever wonder which books by a contemporary author you love will live on through the ages? 50 or 100 years from now, will Zadie Smith be remembered just for White Teeth, or will her complete body...
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50 of the Greatest Characters in Literature
One of the things literature does better than almost any other medium is allow us to experience another person’s quality of mind, and sometimes even inhabit it. It follows, then, that every avid reader...
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50 of the Greatest Debut Novels Since 1950
For a reader, there’s something magical about picking up a first novel — that promise of discovery, the possibility of finding a new writer whose work you can love for years to come, the likelihood of...
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Flavorwire Premiere: Grand Vapids’“Losing” Finds Inspiration in Ralph...
Athens, Georgia’s Grand Vapids are a throwback to indie rock’s not-so-distant past. I hear multiple musical scenes in the corners of their songs, from mid-career Wilco to Elephant 6 band Beulah to...
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50 Essential Literary Biographies
Literary biography is a hugely significant, if often overlooked, enterprise. Today, much of what we know about the authors we admire is filtered through an ocean of online mini-biographies, nearly all...
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30 of the Scariest Moments From Western Literature
Here are 30 of the scariest moments I know of from the ever- controversial “canon” of Western literature — a surely fraught construction that should be perpetually revised, placed in check, and, in...
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