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Paste Magazine caught up with Nashville singer, songwriter and guitarist Marcus King about his brand new solo album, 'Mood Swings.'

Train of Thought (episode #1516) - Episodes - A Way with Words, a fun radio show and podcast about language

ON UL’s campus, I catch up with Donal Ryan. In his office: piles of books, an eclectic collection of literary prizes, a framed edition of The Thing About ...

Jesse Ball is one of our most ambitious and provocative novelists. But his new experimental memoir,, 'Autoportrait,' tests the boundaries of readers

Shashi Tharoor's World of Words is a weekly column in which the politician, diplomat, writer and wordsmith par excellence dissects words and language

From disappearing ink to being written in code to needing a team to turn a page, these books are, for one reason or another, basically unreadable.

Strange, quirky, surprising, disturbing—the following books may represent many of these traits, but they are all certainly bizarre and something quite out of the ordinary. Book lovers and enthusiasts of bizarre topics in general will find these selections both interesting and entertaining. If you’re looking for a conversation piece for your book table, these books really know how to call attention to themselves! As you would expect with books such as these, there are some rather witt...

The opening lines of a book are where the reader gets hooked. That is also true for good lists. Since I’ve already blown my chance to make a good first impression I offer up fifteen of the greatest opening lines in literature. They stand alone as sentences but also make you want to read on to discover what else is behind them.

Words are the best toys.

THE letter 'E' is the most common letter in the English language, but there was an author in the late 1930's who wrote an entire book without using the letter.