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Book Tour: Six Memorable Tomes Set in Indiana

Fort Wayne is Seventh on Hitler’s List is a collection of 17 stories about famous and less-than-famous Indiana residents from Fort Wayne native Michael Martone.

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At Home: Joanna Taft's Library

The Harrison Center for the Arts executive director unwinds in this cozy Herron-Morton Place retreat, where pieces from bookshelf frills to vintage trinkets convey a meaningful narrative.

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The Three Weirdest Stories From Einstein’s Beach House

For one, a couple adopts a depressed hedgehog and seeks therapy for the varmint.

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John Green’s Paper Towns Has Its Movie Starlet

Cara Delevingne will star alongside Nat Wolff, who was previously featured in The Fault in Our Stars and befriended John Green during that movie’s shooting.

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Three Things We Learned From a Zombie Book

FEMA produced a report about preparing for the zombie apocalypse, justifying it by saying that preparing for fictional disasters can teach us about readying for real ones.

Hoosiers: A New History of Indiana
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The Story of Us

In the introduction, Madison explains that he set out merely to “update” his first comprehensive account of the state’s past, published in 1986. “But simply updating that book proved unwise,” he writes. “Because Indiana has changed. So has the knowledge of our past.”

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Five Revelations in Chuck Pagano's New Book, 'Sidelined'

“Players will run through a brick wall for this guy.”

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Hot List 6.13.14: Father's Day Gift Guide

Summer’s essential polo, father-son bowties, and the ultimate apron for grillmeisters.

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Editor's Note: June 2014

There’s a worry when profiling someone as universally beloved as John Green that the story will become a hagiography. The brains behind the bestselling novel The Fault in Our Stars couldn’t be as good-hearted and scandal-free as he seems, right?

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Greenlight! John Green's Next Blockbuster Film?

With John Green’s latest novel, The Fault in Our Stars, getting the Hollywood treatment, we decided to play casting director for his previous books.

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New Book of Vonnegut Artwork Hits Stands

With drooping eyes and swirling lines, the sketches in a new book of Kurt Vonnegut’s artwork offer fans of Indy’s most famous novelist a new window into his strange and beautiful imagination.

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Quick Q&A with Cheryl Strayed

The New York Times bestselling author of the hiking memoir Wild visits Clowes Hall on March 31. We caught up with her on the trail.

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IU Releases Book of Stunning Images of Bloomington Campus

Most of the photos are shot with wide-angle lenses, capturing the timeless architecture along with the sweeping beauty each season brings the iconic Midwest campus.

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2013 Inaugural Poet Richard Blanco Coming to Indy

“President Obama and Vice President Biden stood up to shake my hand,” says Blanco. “It was a true sign of respect for my work as a poet. I thought, ‘These guys have my back.'”

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Romance Novelist Lexi Ryan's 50 Shades of Green

“I always wanted to be a New York Times bestseller,” she says. Now that it’s happened, “I still want to be a household name, you know.”

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