VIDEO: It's Sylvia Plath's Birthday. Listen to this Short, Wonderful Interview with Her
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She Discusses Poetry, Mental Hospitals, and Why Her interest in Concentration Camps Was “Uniquely Intense.”
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VIDEO: It's Flannery O'Connor's Birthday--Listen to Her Talk About Southern 'Grotesque' Literature
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Southern Writers Write About Freaks, She Says, Because they are Still Able To Recognize Them
Read MoreVIDEO: Watch Ursula K. Le Guin Talk About Book Writing and Capitalism
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On the Occasion of Her Death, Remembering the Author's Fiery Spirit
Read MoreVIDEO: Today is Bloomsday. Hear Actor Stephen Fry Explain Why He Loves 'Ulysses'
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He Thinks It's the Best Book in English, or Close to It
Read MoreVIDEO: It's Eudora Welty's Birthday--Watch Her Talk With Gore Vidal About Religion in the South
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And How Girls from the Mississippi Delta Used to Be Different
Read MoreVIDEO: The Great Gatsby is 92 Today--Listen to its Timeless Last 5 Paragraphs
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An Elegy for a "Dream So Close that He Could Hardly Fail to Grasp It"
Read MoreVIDEO: O.J. Simpson Prosecutor Marcia Clark's New Thriller, 'Blood Defense,' is 'a Winner'
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A Novel with a Tough, Female Lawyer Protagonist -- and Plenty of Plot Twists
Read MoreVIDEO: Miaira Jennings Talks About "The Girl on the Train" -- and Previews the Upcoming Movie
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With a Suggestion for an Alternative Ending
Read MoreVIDEO: Today is Lyricist Yip Harburg's Birthday -- Here He Is Singing "Over the Rainbow" and Explaining the Idealism Behind It
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He says he wanted to create a "better world, a rainbow world"
Read MoreVIDEO: It's Susan B. Anthony's Birthday. This is Her Great Speech on Her Arrest for Voting in the 1872 Presidential Election
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"It was we, the people; not we, the white male citizen"
Read MoreVIDEO: On John Grisham's Birthday, This Is Him Talking About How He Wrote, and Sold, His Novel 'The Firm'
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It all started with a law school friend who interviewed with a law firm
Read MoreVIDEO: On his 114th Birthday, Here is Langston Hughes Explaining How He Wrote "The Negro Speaks of Rivers"
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A poem written while crossing the Mississippi by train at twilight
Read MoreVIDEO: On the Anniversary of His Death, Here is Robert Frost Reading "The Road Not Taken"
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A classic poem about which critics have long disagreed
Read MoreVideo: On Susan Sontag's Birthday, Here She is Confronting Norman Mailer Over His Use of the Phrase "Lady Writer"
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From a famous encounter at New York City's Town Hall
Read MoreVideo: Today is Simone de Beauvoir's Birthday: Here She Is Talking About Why She Became a Feminist
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And About What She Meant By "One is Not Born, But Rather Becomes, a Woman."
