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Dr. Seuss was a failure to start, but he soon learned to follow his heart. He wrote books about things that he knew, and soon enough, his book sale...

Sure, Edgar Allan Poe was dark and moody and filled with teenage angst, but what else does he have in common with the Twilight series?

Emily Dickinson was a New England poet/hermit with a fascination with death and immortality. She wrote over 1000 poems in her lifetime, most of the...

Who was Michel Foucault? This video introduces the French philosopher and social theorist who focused on discipline, discourse, and power. What are...

If there weren’t literary critics to help us understand what we’re reading and why, our copy of The Sound and the Fury might as well function a...

Critics started attacking Donne's works only after he had passed away. Talk about kicking a guy when he's already down.

That's a good question. Maybe this is poetry. A haiku, perhaps.

Without meter, poetry is just... poetry without meter.

We'd like to read heavy metal poetry.

You should enjoy a bestseller as you would a delicious slice of pepperoni pizza: slowly, savoring each bite, sharing happily with your friends. Oka...

Click on the "play" button...if you dare. Wow, you don't seem very scared. Well, we did what we could. Guess thrillers aren't our forte.

Historical fiction novels like The Help can whisk you back to a place and time that you may have only read about in history books. Or... a place an...

Picking a theme for a party is pretty easy—always go karate party, because they come with nunchuck egg rolls. Themes in writing are a little diff...

Well, if this book doesn't make you want to tape over your laptop camera, we don't know what will.

Imagine a world in which all literature was dystopian. Okay, so we may be getting to that point, 1984 and V for Vendetta helped start it all.