McSweeney's ranked the top 10 men's World Cup teams "by how easily the first lines of each country's national anthem could be slipped unnoticed into expository voiceover in a Lord of the Rings movie."
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Headline of the day (via Forbes): "Bill Murray Is Going to Recite Poetry at This Ancient Theater in Greece."
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Author Caroline O'Donoghue picked her "top 10 lost women's classics" for the Guardian.
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"Because everybody has an opinion," Lit Hub shared the thoughts of "14 famous writers on whether or not to have kids."
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle "helped invent the curse of the mummy," Electric Lit wrote.
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Literature's great con artists: CrimeReads investigated "9 of the all-time great (fictional) swindlers and grifters."