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i wanted to overthrow the government but all i brought down was somebody's wife BY CHARLES BUKOWSKI 30 dogs, 20 m...

The French word bouquiniste, meaning a book or a little book is pronounced “Boo-Ki-Nest and from that, we get the term for a dealer in old...

But in reading great literature I become a thousand men and yet remain myself.                                                         ...

The word Opusculum comes from Latin, where it serves as the diminutive form of the noun opus, meaning "work." In English, opus...

Good fiction creates empathy. A novel takes you somewhere and asks you to look through the eyes of another person, to live another life...

Sashay: From the French word chassé, meaning  "to chase." The word worked its way into English, badly mispronounced as Sashay.  ...

Pelf: noun: Money or wealth, especially when acquired in a dishonorable manner. From Old French pelfre (booty), which also gave us the wor...

Polyglot:   Speaking or writing several languages: multilingual. The prefix poly comes from Greek and means "many" or "mul...

Kafka’s Hat  With the rain falling surgically against the roof, I ate a dish of ice cream that looked like Kafka’s hat...

Despite his success later in life, Kurt Vonnegut marched through some awful times in his life, including being forced to search and bury t...

Li-Young Lee (born August 19, 1957) is an American poet. He was born in Jakarta, Indonesia, to Chinese parents. His maternal great-grandfa...