Book Links: When Dickens and Poe met; gun that shot Rimbaud up for auction

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Charles’ Dickens’s pet raven apparently inspired Edgar Allan Poe’s poem. (Open Culture)
“Most famous gun in French literature” could be yours for €60,000. (The Guardian)
Read a new feminist essay by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. (GalleyCat)
President Obama’s must-read books. (Wired)
Dos Equis actor known as “the most interesting man in the world” to pen book with Dutton. (GalleyCat)
Boys found to read less and skip over chapters more. (The Guardian)
The rise of the small press on Man Booker shortlist. (LitHub)
The dream of a language to unite humankind (The New Yorker) and the hope that books can bring us together. (Melville House)
What’s your literary movement? (Bookstr)
Do you ever wonder why books were bound in human skin? (Lapham’s Quarterly)

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