Articles with keyword "Literature"
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Violent But Charming
The Dictionary of Old English explores the brutality and elegance of our ancestral tongue.
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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
