The Fiery Vision and 'World' of Tomas Transtromer
()Enter the haunting imagination of the 2011 Nobel Laureate in Literature, whose poems — rich in silence and metaphor — survive translation particularly well.
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Rin Tin Tin: A Silent Film Star On Four Legs
Writer Susan Orlean details how the war-orphaned German shepherd became a hero of the silent era.
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A Revolution On The Page: Finding Identity In Poetry
Author Roya Hakakian explains how she learned to let American poetry into her literary life.
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A Self-Published Author's $2 Million Cinderella Story
No one wanted to publish Amanda Hocking's novels, so she put them online.
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