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Edgar Allan Poe, Honore de Balzac, Ernest Hemingway, Ezra Pound, Audrey Hepburn, and even Jim Carrey all had something in common. Aside from being renowned artists, they were also afflicted with depression. It has been a great...
Monday’s release of Vladimir Nabakov’s The Original Laura has generated considerable fanfare, in large part because the famed writer expressly requested in his will that the works be destroyed. Meanwhile, the posthumous...
The flag and the countdown clock, and in the distance, the launch pad. It was the day we would see the Space Shuttle Atlantis depart for its journey for the International Space Station. We took solace in the official reports...
Ernest Hemingway, author of The Old Man and the Sea Can reading Hemingway help you survive in business? Can isolating yourself from other people help you to come up with ideas? Yes they can, according to fashion designer Paul...
Bill Roedy is the international statesman who never got voted out of office. To step into his London office is to enter a museum filled with artefacts featuring the global leaders, world-changing events, natural disasters and...
A trailblazing figure in 20th-century art, Man Ray (1890-1976) revealed multiple artistic identities over the course of his career ˆ Dadaist, Parisian Surrealist, international portrait and fashion photographer ˆ and produced...
BUT THEN AGAIN By MARY SCHNEIDER Looking to creative writing tutors for inspiration can turn out quite futile. As I wrote my first short story for my creative writing tutor, I felt a rush of adrenalin. When I handed in my...
Shayne Hall won a seven-day cruise to the Bahamas from Pamplona for submitting the winning entry in a contest to name the bull head that hangs in the restaurant's lobby. Hall named the bull Papa. The judges came to the decision...
By Marie Szaniszlo Sunday, November 15, 2009 - Updated 4m ago If you love old books, you will love the Boston International Antiquarian Book Fair. And if you love the macabre, you will love Hans Holbein’s “Dance of Death.” The...
Key West has a balmy climate; even in winter, short sleeves are the norm. But when Ernest Hemingway and his wife, Pauline, bought the house here that they called home for most of the 1930s, Pauline did a funny thing: She...
