Turkey, travel, an Inbox mountain a mile long. Lets ease back into the confusion of our post-holiday lives with a few of these, literary links.

The period is pissed. When did our most commonly used punctuation mark become so aggressive? Find. Out.

This textual analysis of the Hunger Games, Twilight, and Harry Potter tells you which adverbs and adjectives Collins, Meyers, and Rowling tend to overuse. It’s pretty interesting stuff.

It looks like a librarian is behind one of the largest rare book thefts on record. The Italian Antiquarian Booksellers’ Association is calling it, “The largest book scandal in the last 200 years.”

What does your favorite book in high school tell you about your life? Thank the Paris Review for this High School Literature Zodiac.

Anyone who is pursuing an MFA or creative writing degree will certainly have an opinion about, The Program Era: Postwar Fiction and The Rise of Creative Writing as dissected by The New York Review of Books.