literature

Claude: Fiction from Luna Luna magazine

She told me George Plimpton had once tried to pick her mother up in a bar on President’s Day. She had turned him down, of course.

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C'mon Man Booker Prize—Just Three Women on Your Longlist?

The Man Booker longlist is out and the list of ladies and people of color is short. Is the publishing system to blame?

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Ravish It: Oakland's Beast Crawl Offers Intoxicating Mix of Words, Libations

Hot spots including Seattle, New York City and Miami also host reimagined pub crawls for word nerds. This is a trend we can get behind.

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6 Literary References in Popular Songs You Probably Never Knew About

We already knew Lana Del Rey loves literature references. Turns out, so do Muse, Led Zeppelin and Mumford & Sons.

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Lana Del Rey's Lolita Obsession: Another Reason to Love her Music

Lana Del Rey's brand of feminism is steeped in the themes of a scandalous literary classic.

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Ravish It: Quail Bell Magazine's Dreamy, Daring New Anthology

Quail Bell magazine just released "The Social Issue," 64 full-color pages of brilliance—and we got our hands on one of the first copies.

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Unrequited Love is Torture—Here's a Poem About It!

Chances are, you've experienced agonizing, soul-wrenching, f-my-life unrequited love. We found a poem that shares your pain...but in a totally entertaining way.

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Book Nerds Rejoice: Anthropomorphized Literary Classics Have Arrived

Prepare to get your geek on: Humorist and photographer Terry Border has composed an

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