Len Vlahos is an author as well as a former bookseller. He and his wife, Kristen Gilligan, launched Left Field Publishing this month, and Len's novel, The Story of Oog: Or, a New Thinkers Guide to the Forest is one of the company's first two publications. Find out how Douglas Adams and Jonathan Swift inspired this comedic adventure about the pursuit of thought in an unthinking land... (continued)

Open Culture investigated "74 ways characters die in Shakespeare's plays... shown in a handy infographic."

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Wrest pin, for example. Merriam-Webster looked up "13 wonderful words that you're not using (yet)."

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"Oscar Wilde's library card reissued 130 years after being revoked over gay conviction," BBC News reported.

Former Vermont Poet Laureate Ellen Bryant Voigt, who published six collections of poetry and a book of craft essays, died October 23 at age 82, the Barre Montpelier Times Argus reported. Her collection Shadow of Heaven was a finalist for the National Book Award in 2002; Kyrie was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1995; and Messenger was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2008. In 2003, she was elected a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets... (continued)