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When I was a little kid, we had a deck for a special card game called Authors. It was designed for a Go Fish type matching game. There were four cards for each author, each with the name of a different famous work by him or...
The truth behind the children's classic 'Where the Wild Things Are' – now a $100m movie – is that growing up can be painful. Having already sold 10 million copies worldwide, they have this year inspired a 300-page novelisation...
A Musical Feast celebrates the late composer and pianist at the Burchfield-Pennery When retired BPO concertmaster Charles Haupt started his chamber music ensemble a few years ago, it found a home in the Kavinoky Theater at...
Loners are pitied in our up-with-people culture. But before you jump to conclusions, note that she is comfortable hobnobbing in any of five languages for her job as business manager at an international lighting-design firm....
Today the University of Pittsburgh Press named Bobby C. Rogers the winner of the 2009 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize. His debut collection, Paper Anniversary , selected by Pitt Poetry Series editor Ed Ochester, will be...
Eulogy for Alex Ten days after his son, Alex, was killed in a car accident, Reverend William Sloane Coffin delivered this sermon to his congregation at Riverside Church in New York City. As almost all of you know, a week ago...
It's quite an eyeful: erotic poems by Emily Dickinson, an essay on "full body orgasms" . . . and detailed drawings of vibrators. No, it's not "The Joy of Sex" you're reading -- it's the Lincoln Center Theater Review. And boy,...
By John Breneman Sunday, November 15, 2009 - Updated 3m ago Author, Author! Indy native Kurt Vonnegut was great, but what say thee to literary heavy hitters Edgar Allen Poe, Henry David Thoreau, Emily Dickinson and the good Dr....
Olivia Laing on Love Letters of Great Women, edited by Ursula Doyle, Once Again to Zelda by Marlene Wagman-Geller and Telling Tales: A History of Literary Hoaxes by Melissa Katsoulis It is a truth universally acknowledged that...
It is impossible to outgrow Indian sport’s most celebrated Boy Wonder, writes Nirmal Shekar Some time in the future, neuroscientists will perhaps have the answer. But right now it is impossible to say why there are distinctly...
