A Cartoon Tribute To Cats, And The Poets Who Loved Them
Tuesday marks the close of National Poetry Month, a 30-day celebration of all things versified and all people versifying. And …
Book News: ‘Winnie-The-Pooh’ Author Wrote WWI Propaganda
The daily lowdown on books, publishing, and the occasional author behaving badly. Winnie-the-Pooh author and prominent pacifist A.A. Milne secretly …
Vibrant ‘Club’ Links Two Countries In Award-Winning Book
On a Saturday night, the bridge that links downtown El Paso, Texas, to Ciudad Juarez in Mexico is hauntingly still. …
‘Wonderful Words’ In Willa Cather’s No-Longer-Secret Letters
Willa Cather is one of America’s greatest literary voices. Most notably, her stories of immigrant farmers in Nebraska are intimate …
What’s In A Category? ‘Women Novelists’ Sparks Wiki-Controversy
It all started one night when writer Amanda Filipacchi was browsing through Wikipedia and noticed an absence of women under …
Can Online Shows Be Habit-Forming? Soaps May Provide Some Clues
In the world of television, there’s nothing quite like a soap habit. People watch characters evolve not over the 10 …
Marc Maron: A Life Fueled By ‘Panic And Dread’
When Marc Maron started his podcast “WTF with Marc Maron” out of his garage in September 2009, he was in …
From Dissections To Depositions, Poets’ Second Jobs
“No man but a blockhead,” Samuel Johnson famously observed, “ever wrote, except for money.” This is tough news for poets, …
April 22-May 5: Julia Child, Jonathan Franzen And Herta Muller
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Book News: Feminist Icon Mary Thom Dies In Motorcycle Crash
The daily lowdown on books, publishing, and the occasional author behaving badly. Journalist and feminist Mary Thom, a former executive …
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