Articles with keyword "Literature"
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Great Scott!
In an “abandoned tramp’s hotel that had become too filthy even for the tramps,” a bohemian circle of actors, writers, and society figures founded Le Petit Théâtre du Vieux Carré in 1919, one of the fi
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Whaling the Old Way
Life on a nineteenth-century whaler was thrilling, tedious, and often disgusting.
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That's Amore
Three women in novelist William Faulkner’s life affected his storytelling profoundly through their own literary and artistic abilities. Additionally, one of the three transformed his notions of race.
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"Saving Fats"
Permission to write also comes up in Sam Shepard’s latest book, Day out of Days, a collection of short stories that offers one incredible tale told by a friend of Fats Domino’s bodyguard abou
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Dante: Auctor, Autore
The question of authority among writers nags us less today than it did in the late Middle Ages, when poets and philosophers began daring to pen their works in the vernacular.
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Hey, Who You Callin' A Jacobin?
First of all, they are not even French. Second, they’re hardly household names.
