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Lost Truman Capote Stories, Chinese Poet Wang Zang Detained by Police, and More
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Dallas High School Bans Books, the Problem with Sentimentality, and More
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Hilary Mantel’s Controversial New Short Story, the Slow Reading Movement, and More
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Shakespeare in Mandarin, Newly Discovered Jack Kerouac Letters, and More
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The History of American Reading Culture, Alan Moore Drafts Novel Over a Million Words Long, and More
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