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    Contest: Working Titles

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    The working titles of famous books were often best left where they were, crossed out on some coffee-stained legal pad. But sometimes those titles were so wonderfully weird, it's shocking to think that some of the world's greatest authors couldn't title their way out of a paper bag. That's why we're offering this short contest to our online readers today. Match the working title to the published title in the manner below—the answer shown is "16. A" and so on—and the person who submits the first fully correct response to contests@laphamsquarterly.org by tonight at midnight EST will receive a free issue of Arts & Letters.* (Click on the image for a clearer version.)

    UPDATE: Congrats to Natalie McDonald of Philadelphia! For everyone else, the answers are now available to all to see in Charts & Graphs.

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    *The editors are aware that the answers to this chart are located in the Arts & Letters issue, and we really mean for this to be a contest for people who don't yet have the issue and would like to get one. Spread the love, yes?

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