Shriek! A previously unpublished Ernest Hemingway short story, "A Room on the Garden Side," is being published in the summer edition of Strand Magazine.
Take a tour around the Chicago suburb of Oak Park, Illinois, and check out the incredible literary murals throughout town.
Let’s talk cocktail hour, shall we? I think that gin is a magical ingredient. I believe that, as the ads ...
When I teach college writing, I tell my students that there’s no such thing as writer’s block. Many people disagree ...
I’ve been ornament shopping lately, ladies and gentlemen, and I have found myself happily lingering in the bookish ornament section ...
In my infinitely nerdy reading obsessions, I’ve come across a genre of fiction that so many readers scoff at, while ...
“I feel thin, sort of stretched, like butter scraped over too much bread.” So says Bilbo Baggins in The Fellowship of ...
The Great American Novel is like Moby Dick, the whale, not the book. Ever since the phrase was coined in ...
The great Sol Stein has this to say about titles in his excellent Stein on Writing: Venture into any bookstore ...
This is a guest post from Philip Greene. He is one of the founders of the Museum of the American Cocktail ...
I learned to read when I opened my eyes. I learned to read when I learned I loved stories. I ...
Hemingway famously said that he re-wrote the ending of A Farewell to Arms 39 times before he got it right. ...
People often ask me — since I’m always reading more than one book at once — how do you keep ...
There is an affliction that many suffer from. It hides in plain sight. Someone on your bus every morning has ...
