Futility Closet introduces us to the story of a wild hoax which I have verified through authoritative information sources. It begins with Jean Shepherd, a radio host for WOR-AM in New York City. Shepherd was a published...

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John C. Wright is a commercially successful science fiction novelist. That is an enormously difficult accomplishment. There are many great writers who struggle to get published and then to get published widely enough to...

Even the most talented fiction writers start with...  ...to Catch 22, find 14 more stories of how classic novels were inspired at HuffPo.

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Fantasy characters gathered on Facebook to tell the story of their people. And it shall continue. When George Takei posted this, it was followed by a slew of image macros in the comments that are quite funny. Say what yo...

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In this literary quiz at Buzzfeed, you’ll be given the opening line to a novel, and you decide which of three books it came from. I guessed right on the books I’d actually read, but since I’ve always pr...

And now I have to read it. Don't you? That title is irresistible. It blends some of the most gripping fiction genres: supernatural horror and science fiction. I’m into alternate history, myself, so Amish Vampires i...