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Jemma Stewart of Somerset, England: ‘I’m spending my first day ever in America at the Jack Kerouac grave. I didn’t study him in school. I found him by myself. I need this in my life.’ Photo: Fans leave tokens at…
John Milton was an anarchist, didn’t believe in the Trinity and wrote pamphlets about the merits of divorce, and wrote Paradise Lost “I don’t believe any of you have ever read PARADISE LOST, and you don’t want to. That’s something that…
One of the greatest American Civil War historians saw nobility in the stars and bars. Photo: Shelby Foote (1916-2005)Credit: Flickr/CreativeCommons/MemphisCVB 29 NOVEMBER 2017 HAWKINS BAY James Porteous 29 November 2017 | Bill Kauffman| TAC “Back in the summer of 2000,…
A yearly tradition, TCM Remembers celebrates the life and work of bright lights that will never fade. 22 December 2021 | James Porteous | Clipper Media #TCMRemembers the performers, filmmakers and creatives we lost this year. Their art will always…
A new biography illuminates this most complex of political thinkers. 06 December 2021 | DANIEL BEN-AMI | Spiked For anyone interested in political ideas the first encounter with Hannah Arendt is likely to be bracing. Her books and articles tend…
In 1913, The Times declared Cather’s “novel without a hero” to be “American in the best sense of the word.” Credit:Lily Snowden-Fine Sept. 14, 1913 | The New York Times The hero of the American novel very often starts on…
After her second divorce, author Saima Mir finally realised that no one was coming to rescue her and she began to build a new world for herself. Photo: Saima Mir meeting film star Amitabh Bachchan, left. Composite: Guardian Design; Courtesy of…
04 October 2021 | James Porteous | Clipper Media Fans of the work of Anthony Burgess have grown weary of pointing out that he wrote quite a few books much better than Clockwork Orange (among them The Long Day Wanes…
Photo: Cropped – David Dee Delgado for The New York Times (original below) | With additional photos, quotes and video The beloved author wrote many witty epitaphs but never suggested where her remains should end up. Her fans helped complete…
Photo: Gertrude Stein, 1934. Photographer: Carl Van Vechten An interesting, if somewhat overly critical look at Gertrude Stein and her The Autobiography of Alice B Toklas. Personally I have never understood why she is so misunderstood, or revered by modern-day…
(Image credit: Alamy) Since Sylvia Plath died in 1963, she’s been turned into a crudely tragic symbol. As she inspires more biographies, will we ever get closer to the ‘real’ Plath. 21 July 2021 | Lillian Crawford | BBC Culture When…
Photo: William F. Nolan and Ray Bradbury The American author wrote hundreds of stories in the science fiction, fantasy, horror, and crime fiction genres as well as as a screenwriter. 18 July 2021 | Mike Glyer | File770 | With additional videos and wire stories By…
