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Beware the Ides of March: How Shakespeare Shaped Our Language
The phrase “Beware the Ides of March” has become a cultural shorthand for a warning ignored, leading to a disastrous…
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AI and X-Rays Reveal Written Secrets of Poet and Philosopher, Philodemus
If there is one thing I love as much as literature, it’s history. That’s why a recent discovery caught my…
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Choose Love this Month
Love is in the air this month!Long before modern love stories filled bookstore shelves, some of the earliest authors were…
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Anne Brontë: The Quiet Revolutionary of Feminist Fiction
Most of us know about Charlotte Bronte, after all, Jane Eyre is considered by many as one of the great…
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Jane Austen’s Writing Slope
Jane Austen’s writing slope is one of my favorite artifacts. A gift from her father, George Austen, in December 1794,…
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Who Really Wrote The Night Before Christmas?
The origins of the poem remain steeped in controversy. As the story goes, Clement Clarke Moore wrote “A Visit from…
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The Success of Sarah J Maas Boosts Bloomsbury’s Profits
Bloomsbury has raised its profit projections for the year following the global success of Sarah J Maas’s latest fantasy novel,…
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YEG is the First Airport in North America to Boast Short Story Dispenser
Flying out of the Edmonton International Airport (YEG) soon? If you are looking for some literature while you wait for…
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Tips to Help Get Your Book Published
Okay, so you’ve done it. You’ve accomplished your dream of writing a novel, a complete manuscript, free from plot holes…
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The Haunted Writing of Shirley Jackson
Shirley Jackson, is considered one of the most brilliant and influential authors of the twentieth century–widely acclaimed for her stories…
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