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Magazines worth searching for
Vice . . . America has the First Amendment, but Canada has Vice
Big Daddy . . . . . U.S. won independence, but UK has Big Daddy
Life Sucks Die . . . Good Ol' Yankee spirit is alive and well
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Writers on some school-type literary shit
Louis-Ferdinand Celine . . wrote Journey to the End of the Night
Marquis DeSade . . . imprisoned for having too many orgies
Ralph Waldo Emerson . . . transcendentalist who inspired Thoreau
William Faulkner . . . . . . . author of The Sound & The Fury
William Gaddis
Andre Gide
Ibsen
James Joyce . . . . . author of Ulysses and Finnegans Wake
Herman Hesse
Johann Hölderlin
Rolf Jacobsen
D.H. Lawrence
Alberto Moravia . . . Italian who wrote about sex and alienation
Henry Thoreau . . . read his major works here online!
Kurt Vonnegut Jr. . . . accessible and often comical sci-fi
David Foster Wallace . . . author of Infinite Jest and its footnotes
Oscar Wilde . . . served two years for "homosexual practices"
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Poets accomplish their goals by any means necessary
e.e. cummings
T.S. Eliot
Ogden Nash . . . liquor is quicker, but Nash is a gas
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Playwrights write lots of dialog
Bertolt Brecht
George Bernard Shaw
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Philosophers think hard for a living
Nietzsche
Foucault
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Absurd Surreal Dada nonsense
Apollinaire . . . pornographer who influenced theater, painting, writing, and sex
Louis Aragon . . . founded the French literary review Litterature
Andre Breton . . . mouthpiece of surrealist movement
Eugene Ionesco . . . seminal playwright of Teatro del Absurdo
Edward Lear . . . 19th century writer of nonsense
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African-American Writers on some revolutionary-type shit
Amiri Baraka . . . . poet/author whose career spans five decades
W.E.B. DuBois . . . . set the record straight on Black education
Phillis Wheatley . . "first black writer of consequence in America"
Saul Williams . . . . this guy can beat people up with words
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wordplay will wake up your wits
Internalational Dictionary of Neologisms . . . a divinative resource
Collection of Word Oddities and Trivia . . . . . . . just what it says
A Game Called Stink Pink . . . . . . . . . try this at home kids
Fun-With-Words . . . spoonerisms, oxymora, etymology, mnemonics, cockney slang
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