Grad Student Discovers A Lost Novel Written By Walt Whitman

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It's a work of short fiction: a 36,000-word novella published in 1852. "It's weird, it's wild, it's beautiful and hilarious, and turns on a dime in ways that are both great and terrible," says the University of Houston grad student who found it.

Grad Student Discovers A Lost Novel Written By Walt Whitman

An ad in a March 1852 edition of The New York Times led Zachary Turpin…

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