Halloween Fright; Declining a Nobel

Have a bookish Halloween. "Get the look for every single Hunger Games district," the Huffington Post advised in featuring Cover Girl's new fall campaign. Flavorwire featured "the devil's 10 best appearances in literature" and the "50 scariest books of all time." 

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Oops. Old rejection letters from publishers addressed to Nobel laureate Alice Munro were recently found in the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin.

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Artist Paul Rogers, who recently illustrated Jack Kerouac's On the Road, inspired Flavorwire to "search out other illustrations of famous novels--those stories that didn't necessarily contain images to begin with, but have been brought to life by contemporary artists."

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"How much do you know about the plucky French warrior and his world?" the Guardian asked in posing its "all things Asterix" quiz.

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"Mitt Romney's new house has a secret room behind a bookcase--for, um, 'office storage,' " New York magazine reported.

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Buzzfeed highlighted "22 things that belong in every bookworm's dream home."

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