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Scott Beauchamp

Scott Beauchamp is a veteran and writer living in Brooklyn. He also writes about culture and books at Full Stop.

Why Publish a Writer’s Diary?

George Orwell doesn’t REALLY need an introduction. If all you know about him is that he wrote some really amazing ...

Five Women Writers Tougher Than Hemingway

I’ve written before about the myth of Papa Hemingway’s toughness. Not that he wasn’t tough, anyone who visits war zones, ...

Five Writers Tougher Than Hemingway

Big Papa H, the whisky-swilling, war wounded, big game-hunting, stoic patriarch of American letters basically set what we think of ...

I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Zombie…Now What Should I Read?

Sometimes what we call the Bookish Community (that’s writers, booksellers, publishers, book bloggers, and of course you, dear reader) are ...

Riot Round-Up: The Best Books We Read in July

We asked our contributors to share the best book they read this month. We’ve got fiction, nonfiction, YA, memoir, and ...

Is Nostradamus Literature?

So Penguin Classics, a press whose website brags about being “…timeless and trendsetting,” is about to publish a book of ...

The Perfect Book, The Perfect Soundtrack

As a general rule, people are slightly embarrassed by who they were as teenagers. For most of us, it was ...

Should You Feel Bad About Reading Stephen King?

Sometimes it’s interesting to watch a fight. That’s even more likely to be true if the fight is a literary ...

The Tupacs of Literature

I don’t know if you caught the rather disturbing Tupac hologram at this years Coachella music festival in California, but ...

Books to Annoy Your Liberal Friends

Last week, I gave you a list of Books to Annoy Your Conservative Friends. As promised, here is its liberal companion. ...