When Lillian Ross profiled the celebrated novelist, the world saw ridicule and ruin. But letters between the reporter and her ...

As a writer, I'm always looking for new ways to approach narrative structures. I'm constantly trying to figure out how I can get my story across to most people in the simplest way. That's why I was so ...

In June 1931, a crowd of 30,000 fans packed into the ground to witness Gains' historic defeat of multiple title-holder Phil ...

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The email included an extraordinary perspective on life (taken from a Facebook post) that was attributed to the famous American author Ernest Hemingway: The most beautiful people we encounter in life ...

On May 10, 1933, university students in 34 university towns across Germany burned over 25,000 books. The works of Jewish authors like Albert Einstein and Sigmund Freud went up in flames alongside ...

Shaw, himself a journalist, filmmaker, and musician, served as Fedarko’s interviewer at The Arts Campus at Willits.

Everett gives James the gift of language, and James writes his account of his travels with a stolen pencil stub—one which ...