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A scattershot guide to literary South Florida includes the depressing fact that Zora Neale Hurston worked as a maid on Miami Beach late in life. See also.

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“As critics go, Anderson is probing and even-tempered, not exactly a hanging judge. But something about [James] Patterson’s novels makes the veins stand out in his neck.”

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Dorothy Parker is out of ribbon again. (Via.) Also, Dogmatika digs up more Tim Gauld comics — on Edward Gorey, Emily Dickinson, and many other writers.

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The “a few of us can even write” Mississippi ads may be ridiculous — some would say insulting, even — but I understand.

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Filmmaker John Huston sought not to interpret Melville, O’Connor, Joyce, McCullers, et al., but to capture their stories faithfully. See also.

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