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Joan Didion, David Foster Wallace, Sherman Alexie, Molly Ivins, and Jonathan Franzen all sit on The American Heritage Dictionary’s usage panel.

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Lord Byron was the best-paid author of his time, while Jane Austen “was offered a meagre £450 for Emma, Mansfield Park and Sense and Sensibility.”

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Should India be doing more to preserve its literary legacy?

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Wilma Dykeman, writer, activist, & chronicler of Appalachia, has died at 86.

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Winter hibiscus, and other unexpected developments

Pining for Florida back in June, I bought a small hibiscus plant that bloomed in my backyard all summer long. I figured it would wither and die after I carried it indoors last month. But I woke on Christmas Eve morning to the flower you see here. It was the next best thing to celebrating the holidays in the Subtropics . . .

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