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Four Brilliant Authors and Why They're Douchebags

Houston Press | September 19, 2011

There are some truly brilliant authors who have such deep moral lapses that if we'd known about them before we probably never would've read any of their works no matter how brilliant. That was the key to putting together this list.

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