by | Aug 10, 2015 | Literary News, Mirth
from CBS DC To Smoke Or Not To Smoke: Scientist Says William Shakespeare Used Marijuana A South African researcher says traces of cannabis were found in fragments of clay pipes discovered in William Shakespeare’s garden. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images) LONDON...
by | Aug 9, 2015 | Culture Music Art, Literary News
from The New York Times Oliver Sacks: My Periodic Table By OLIVER SACKS Aidan Koch I LOOK forward eagerly, almost greedily, to the weekly arrival of journals like Nature and Science, and turn at once to articles on the physical sciences — not, as perhaps I should, to...
by | Aug 3, 2015 | Literary News
from VULTURE Nikki Finke Is Now Making Up Her Stories (Sort Of) By Jessica Pressler Photo: Jen Rosenstein For Nikki Finke, fiction was always the enemy. “As a journalist, that was the worst thing you could say about something,” she says. “That’s fiction.” In the years...
by | Jul 28, 2015 | Bright Shiny News, Literary News
from The Hartford Courant Local Literary Events Include Author James Frey, Twain Summer Program Author James Frey, who gained fame and notoriety from his 2003 memoir “A Million Little Pieces,” will give a free talk at Avon Public Library on Thursday, July 30, from 6...
by | Jul 27, 2015 | Culture Music Art, Literary News
from Real Clear Politics The Inimitable Style of Gertrude Stein By Carl Cannon Image from France Culture Sixty-nine years ago today, as the first crop of baby boomers was being born, iconic American expatriate Gertrude Stein died in Paris. Her life partner, Alice B....
by | Jul 22, 2015 | Literary News
from The New York Times The Forgotten Man Behind William Carlos Williams’s ‘Red Wheelbarrow’ By JENNIFER SCHUESSLER image from cliparts.co For decades, much has depended on his red wheelbarrow, streaked with rain, next to some white chickens, even if no one has known...
