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  • Target inexplicably shelves Tolstoy<\/a> under \u201cEmerging Authors.\u201d <\/li>\n
  • \u201cMy feeling was, if you\u2019re going to propose to your girlfriend this way, you\u2019ve got to do it right \u2026 You do it in the finished book.\u201d An illustrator pops the question in print<\/a>.<\/li>\n
  • The unlikely friendship between Walt Whitman and Bram Stoker<\/a>. <\/li>\n
  • The fiscal cliff for English majors<\/a>. <\/li>\n
  • Why we reread<\/a>. <\/li>\n

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    Target inexplicably shelves Tolstoy under \u201cEmerging Authors.\u201d \u201cMy feeling was, if you\u2019re going to propose to your girlfriend this way, you\u2019ve got to do it right \u2026 You do it in the finished book.\u201d An illustrator pops the question in print. The unlikely friendship between Walt Whitman and Bram Stoker. The fiscal cliff for English […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":178,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2512],"tags":[4454,9490,4861,1715,264,2295],"class_list":["post-43554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-on-the-shelf","tag-bram-stoker","tag-fiscal-cliff","tag-leo-tolstoy","tag-target","tag-walt-whitman","tag-william-shakespeare"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nLeo Tolstoy, Emerging Author, and Other News by Sadie Stein<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"December 13, 2012 \u2013 Target inexplicably shelves Tolstoy under \u201cEmerging Authors.\u201d \u201cMy feeling was, if you\u2019re going to propose to your girlfriend this way, you\u2019ve got to do it\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" 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