Tell My Horse: Voodoo and Life in Haiti and Jamaica by Zora Neale Hurston

What It's About: Anthropologist and all-around badass Hurston tells of her experiences as a newcomer in the communities of Jamaica and Haiti in the 1930s, particularly the spiritual and commonplace role of Voodoo in everyday life.

Why You'll Want To Travel: Hurston's total integration into the lives of the people she writes about is so authentic, you'll be convinced no good travel story can be told until you stop being an observer and start participating.

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Which "Harry Potter" Book Are You?

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Wands at the ready!

9 Truths "Read Bottom Up" Gets Right About Dating

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“They’re all assholes until one isn’t.”

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Read Bottom Up by Neel Shah and Skye Chatham is a novel that takes readers through the journey of one New York couple's relationship, by looking at their emails and text messages. We read exchanges between the couple, Elliot and Madeline, and between both Elliot and Madeline and their best friends. Being two single, straight women in their twenties living and dating in New York City, we decided to talk about which aspects of the book rang most true to our experiences.

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Krystie Lee Yandoli: I really enjoyed every minute of reading Read Bottom Up because it felt like someone had hacked into all of my personal information and wrote a book about my life. I wrote this in an email to someone about the book and it's true for me: it's nice to be able to see bits and pieces of yourself mirrored in literature; it's helpful to feel not so alone, especially in something as crazy as the NYC dating scene. What did you think about the format?

Julia Pugachevsky: Same! I definitely always feel the temptation to screencap everything and give my friends a play-by-play of my love life. I think there's a fine line though between sharing funny anecdotes and frantically begging your BFF to "decode" everything.

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Which Baudelaire Sibling From "A Series Of Unfortunate Events" Are You?

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Take this quiz, unless you’d rather be drinking a root beer float or something.

Over 100 Lost Stories By Mark Twain Have Been Discovered

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Rejoice, book nerds!

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The 2,000-word stories, or "letters" were then sent by stagecoach for publication in the Territorial Enterprise, located in Virginia City, Nevada.

About 110 letters by Twain, written between 1865-1866, were discovered. Previously, the letters were believed to have been lost in a fire, but copies were found in other Western newspapers.

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"He knows the city, he's a bohemian of a certain kind, he's interested in what's going on. He simply weaves that all together with the greatest clarity and the greatest humor that you could possibly imagine."

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