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Book cover of Octavia Butler's "Parable of the Talents."

The Fictional Presidential Candidate Who Promised to ‘Make America Great Again’

How a work of science fiction anticipated the coming of Trump.

by Kashmir Hill via Splinter on June 15, 2016

How Did YA Become YA?

Why is it called YA anyway? And who decided what was YA and what wasn’t?

by Anne Rouyer via New York Public Library on April 20, 2015

The Self-Made Man

The story of America’s most pliable, pernicious, irrepressible myth.

by John Swansburg via Slate on September 29, 2014

Salmon fisheries at Celilo Falls.

Ken Kesey Meets Lewis and Clark

Celilo Falls was the economic and spiritual center of the Indian world in the Pacific Northwest.

by George Rohrbacher via Commonplace on January 16, 2006

A dairy farm near Charlottesville (Library of Congress).

'Charlottesville': A Government-Commissioned Story About Nuclear War

A fictional 1979 account of how the small Virginia city would weather an all-out nuclear exchange between the U.S. and U.S.S.R.

by Nan Randall via The Atlantic on January 1, 1979

Harper Lee

Harper Lee's Only Recorded Interview About 'To Kill A Mockingbird' [AUDIO]

In 1964, Harper Lee talked with WQXR host Roy Newquist for an interview in New York.

via WQXR on January 1, 1964

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