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  • Abierce_1866 Life Redefined: "The Devil's Dictionary" Turns 100

    10 months ago

    Austin Allen in Book Think

    A century after its publication as The Devil’s Dictionary, Ambrose Bierce’s comic lexicon remains a beautifully nasty piece of work. Though it’s a work of satire first and foremost, its mock definitions incorporate whimsy, existential pessimism, cheap puns, sex jokes, and just about every other ... Read More

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Book Think is a guide to "dead trees," live Web fiction, and everything in between. It features book news, reviews, literary essays, and commentary on changes in the publishing industry. Austin Allen is a teaching fellow and MFA student in creative writing at Johns Hopkins University, as well as a former editor at Big Think. He lives in Baltimore. 

 

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