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March Is Charles Dickens Month at 1book140 The Atlantic

March Is Charles Dickens Month at 1book140

Submit your nominations for which Dickens title we'll read next in our Twitter-based book club.

How 1970s New York Shaped Music for Decades to Come Faber

How 1970s New York Shaped Music for Decades to Come

The story of a city in decline and the beauty that arose from the decay

Why We Keep Talking About the Holocaust AP Images

Why We Keep Talking About the Holocaust

An interview with Nathan Englander, author of the short-story collection "What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank"

The Torrid Love Letters of Famous Authors AP

The Torrid Love Letters of Famous Authors

The loving, touching, and downright weird things that the literary greats wrote to their lovers

11 Love Poems Published in The Atlantic flickr

11 Love Poems Published in The Atlantic

A selection of verse about romance, marriage, and desire

10 of the Greatest Kisses in Literature Louis Hersent

10 of the Greatest Kisses in Literature

Which characters had the best snog in literary history?

RIP John Christopher, Unsung Young-Adult Sci-Fi Writer Simon Pulse

RIP John Christopher, Unsung Young-Adult Sci-Fi Writer

The author, who died last week, wrote books that linked a familiar past with an unrecognizable future.

10 Greatest Charles Dickens Characters Wikimedia

10 Greatest Charles Dickens Characters

The whimsical charms of Ebeneezer Scrooge, the Artful Dodger, Uriah Heep, and more

For 'Hugo' Author Brian Selznick, Life (Thankfully) Imitates Art Paramount Pictures

For 'Hugo' Author Brian Selznick, Life (Thankfully) Imitates Art

The author, whose children's book was turned into a Martin Scorsese-directed, Academy Award-nominated film, is starting to resemble some of his own…

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