Portal:Literature/Did you know/Week 23

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... that Sydney Horler and Michael Arlen were two bestselling novelists of the 1920s?

... that T. C. Boyle has written a novel about marijuana farmers, Budding Prospects?

... that Petrified Forest National Park, the setting of Robert E. Sherwood's 1935 stage play The Petrified Forest, is located in northeastern Arizona, and that Humphrey Bogart successfully played the role of escaped killer Duke Mantee on Broadway?

... that Psychodrama is a method of psychotherapy which explores, through action, the problems of people, and that it was developed by Romanian psychiatrist Jacob L. Moreno?

... that Shakespeare's Sonnet CXXXVIII is about two lovers lying to, and with, each other?

... that Cunt (1999) is a controversial novel by Stewart Home?

... that the Verfremdungseffekt is usually associated with Bertolt Brecht's (statue pictured) "epic theatre"?