Portal:Literature/Did you know/Week 31
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... that T. C. Boyle's new novel, Talk Talk, is about identity theft?
... that Abha Dawesar, Anita Desai, Bharati Mukherjee, R. K. Narayan (pictured), and Vikram Seth are Indian novelists writing in English?
... that Monstrous Regiment was a British feminist theatre company during the 1970s and 1980s which took its name from the 16th century misogynist tract by John Knox, The First Blast of the Trumpet Against the Monstrous Regiment of Women?
... that Frankenstein is the name of the scientist rather than the monster he created?
... that Black Mask was a U.S. pulp magazine which appeared from 1920 till 1951, and that among its contributors were Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler?
... that the Stonewall Book Award is named after the Stonewall riots of 1969?
... that "A Horse, a Horse, my Kingdome for a Horse" is a line taken from the ending of Shakespeare's Richard III?
