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Want to know what typeface is on that bottle of Sriracha? Fonts in Use will tell you.
Woodrow Wilson Rawls burned all of his manuscripts.
'The Phantom Tollbooth' is a product of Norton Juster’s procrastination and the illustrations by Jules Feiffer.
4. It was rejected by more than two dozen publishers.
The 1899 novella explored the consequences of colonialism in Africa—and within one man's soul.
For one, Toni Morrison's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel was based on a true story. She also didn't read it until 2014.
Andrew Jackson Davis claimed he could see into space, the afterlife, and other worlds—but not everybody believed him.
The beloved classic tackles race relations during the 1960s civil rights movement.
Judy Blume was the queen of the YA novel before the concept even existed, inspiring generations of passionate fans—and a fair share of dissenters—in her more than 50-year career.
The literary classic received negative reviews when it was published in 1899.
Their best handiwork should be impossible for you to see.
Here’s a reminder that truth and fiction don’t always coincide.
Ray Bradbury's science fiction classic Fahrenheit 451, published in 1953, remains full of surprises, contradictions, and misconceptions.
The mysterious text has stumped codebreakers for decades.
Emma Bovary has been described as "the original desperate housewife."
With flowing prose and a courageous pen, Virginia Woolf wasn't afraid to dissect any topic, whether it was the idiocy of warfare or the joys of sex.
Shortly before her death, the author sent her 8-year-old niece a New Year's greeting—written entirely backwards.
"Arguably it's darker than Season 1—if that's possible,” Elisabeth Moss says of the Hulu hit's upcoming second season.