CrimeReads recommended "5 great blizzard thrillers that will speak to your snowbound soul."
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This week the New York Public Library celebrated the annual #LibraryShelfie Day.
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Mental Floss explored "how 5 famous authors dealt with writer's block."
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Colm Tóibín has been named the new Laureate for Irish Fiction, the Irish Times reported.
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"Read the CIA's Simple Sabotage Field Manual: a timeless guide to subverting any organization with 'purposeful stupidity' (1944)." (via Open Culture)