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50 Books to Cure Heartbreak
Heartbroken? Left alone? Depressed? And right before the holidays? Never fear, because this is no end-of-year list — it’s a list to cure that broken heart of yours. Now, there are as many ways to mend...
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Leaving It All Behind: 2014’s Literary Trend Toward Solitude as Feminist...
There’s a section of Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre that often gets glossed over in discussion, in favor of the novel’s central gothic romance. After Jane realizes her intended, Mr. Rochester, is a...
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Girl Canon: 50 Essential Books About the Female Experience
Everyone knows that, statistically at least, girls read more than boys. But the classic, canonical growing-up books, at least in American culture, tend to represent the male experience — I’m thinking...
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Is the Internet Helping Americans Talk About Death?
Oliver Sacks is dying. The beloved neurologist wrote an incredibly clear-eyed piece about his diagnosis for the New York Times, which speaks in honest, direct language about the way he wants to exit...
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25 Essential Books About Death and Grief
If there’s one thing that every human on this earth has in common, it is that, at some point, we will have to deal with death. And while the contours of grief are different in every case, it is a...
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10 Great Road Movies About Women
Wild, director Jean-Marc Vallée’s film version of Cheryl Strayed’s bestselling memoir, hits DVD and Blu-ray today, and is well worth your time — both on its own merits and as part of the fascinating...
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Uplifting Beach Reads [Sponsored]
Upgrade your summertime novel-gazing with our favorite uplifting beach reads. No saccharine drivel here, just inspiring novels and nonfiction to give you a boost. Equally refreshing: Bottled Starbucks®...
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‘Wild’ Co-Stars Reese Witherspoon and Laura Dern to Produce HBO Series Based...
Reese Witherspoon and Laura Dern will reteam to adapt Cheryl Strayed’s 2012 collection of essays, Tiny Beautiful Things into a drama series for HBO. Witherspoon and Dern previously starred in 2014’s...
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“Tell Yourself the Good Stories”: Cheryl Strayed on Collecting Quotes,...
“I feel like the accidental self-help writer,” says Cheryl Strayed, a day after her collection of quotations, Brave Enough, hits shelves. Strayed, a novelist and memoirist by trade, earned cult status...
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Elizabeth Gilbert, Cheryl Strayed Help Raise $1 Million for Syrian Refugees
Five of the world’s kindest authors came together this week to make a kind of holiday miracle happen: they encouraged the Western world to donate $1 million to be given to Syrian refugees, and it...
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