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Literary Halloween – Part I: 5 Costumes with Character

By Jessica Monk Halloween, I confess: I’ve failed you. My costumes have been offbeat, inappropriate, and dangerously conceptual. Being a literature graduate, it’s what’s expected of me, right? Think again.…

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Literary Halloween – Part II: 10 Couples Costumes for Book Lovers

By Amanda Festa Couples costumes can be hard to pull off. They require the perfect mix of chemistry, good humor, and thinly veiled innuendo. And it is always a delicate…

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Thoreau’s Other Waters: The Concord River

When reading Thoreau for the first time, a reader might assume that the writer is speaking aloud his mind, giving a voice to his innermost thoughts, opinions and edicts. I…

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50 Shades of Belle du Jour: Sex, Writing, and Making Movies

Article and Illustration by Haley Houseman Despite the pearl-clutching that occurred when Fifty Shades of Grey appeared on our cultural radar, erotica has been mainstream for a while. From Victorian erotica,…

Fitzgerald Museum in Alabama

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Travel

Literary Destination: The Fitzgerald Museum in Montgomery, Alabama

When we imagine F. Scott Fitzgerald and his wife Zelda, we tend to think of them in some New York ballroom, sipping champagne and dancing dizzily. You might not expect…

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Books

So, You Liked The Great Gatsby – What’s Next?

By Jack Callahan Was The Great Gatsby your introduction to the work of F. Scott Fitzgerald? Did you like it so much that you want to read more by the…

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A Zelda Fitzgerald Reading List

By Caitlin O’Hara Why does Zelda Fitzgerald continue to hold our attention 65 years after her death? Yes, she was beautiful, artistic, volatile, and often in the shadow of one…

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Hotels

Hotel Ambos Mundos: Traveling to Cuba the ‘Heming-way’

By Amanda Festa Since January of 2011, when restrictions on traveling to Cuba were loosened, eager travelers have been flocking to the country for one of the many cultural tours…

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The Scroll of Jack Kerouac

And the next item up for bid, ladies and gentleman, is sale # 9652- Lot 307.” This is a common introduction heard on a regular basis at the world famous…

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A Wasteland of Contradictions: The California Dreams of Nathanael West

By Tim Tejani El Centro, California lies sixty miles inside the Arizona border in Imperial County. This formidably-named milieu can pass all but unnoticed astride the whir of Interstate-8. It…

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