From his childhood, Samuel Clemens was devoted to showmanship, exaggeration and the joy of a tall tale.

The Broken Places I was watching a promotional ad on television recently for the show “Intervention” and saw a quote from Ernest Hemingway, which read: “The world breaks everyone, and afterward many ...

the appropriation of the American author gave his adopted country both solace and a sense of one-upmanship. The director of the Museo Ernest Hemingway, Ada Rosa Alfonso Rosales, was waiting for me ...

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In fact, argues Ron Chernow in a titanic new biography, Twain was “the largest literary personality that America has produced ...

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For better or worse, most icons of literary history have a reputation of being gratuitous imbibers. These famous authors ...

The story itself is about telling lies and about telling stories, and where these two things intersect in the life of a boy named Aldo. The ability to tell a riveting story, to hold an audience’s ...

Populist and patrician, hustler and moralist, salesman and satirist, he embodied the tensions within his America, and ours.