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I decided today would be a good day to do a “Literary Recap: In the News”. There were so many

As a history major in undergrad, and a book lover for more years than I care to count, finding the

Best-selling Italian novelist Umberto Eco here advises aspiring writers not to take themselves too seriously, but to go step by

Mark Twain, who read widely, was passionately interested in the problems of style; the mark of the strictest literary sensibility

While doing research for the Give A Lick: Literary Postage Stamps – Humorists Ogden Nash and James Thurber post, I wanted

What is the connection between Ogden Nash and James Thurber? Besides both being humorists, they published at The New Yorker during the

Continuing on the Give A Lick: Literary Postage Stamp week, today I will be featuring Flannery O’Connor and Ralph Ellison. The

Inspiration comes from many places. Today’s blog post inspiration came from the Richard Wright quote of last week, when I

If you came looking for some words of wisdom, I’m hiding in the lab doing Science Fact-Checking. Did you know

A groundbreaking new study from the Gallant Laboratory at the University of California, Berkeley is transforming how scientists understand language

“A towel…is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have. Partly it has great practical value. You

The more closely the author thinks of why he wrote, the more he comes to regard his imagination as