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Writer Evan Ratliff Tried to Vanish: Here’s What Happened After Evan Ratliff was captured, Wired asked the most active hunters to send in their stories. Here are the answers: Mike Selinker Lone Shark Games Before the hunt...
This year, my personal goal was to read 24 books. I’m happy to report that I have already exceeded this goal, and it’s only November. I’m indeed a little proud of myself. I have already read 27 books so far, probably 28 by this...
One hundred years ago today, a crowd gathered at the Royal Albert Hall in London to be told of atrocities in the Congo. Luminaries such as Arthur Conan Doyle, the writer, and the Archbishop of Canterbury were joined in their...
Update: More fun amid the madness via Ed Driscoll with additional links. Good Lord, this is priceless. The Dish has gone silent. Shhhhhh.... Andy, the blogosphere's own little Joseph Conrad, steams along, deep into his own...
Italian model and film actor, she left the cinema and joined the jet set Rosanna Schiaffino, who has died aged 69, was one of those Italian beauty queens who began a promising acting career in the post-neorealist cinema of the...
Writer seeks pen name: something simple, nothing dippy, and preferably one that avoids implying a lawyer who savors puns. In two thousand words, MIKE SMITH becomes someone new. Engraving of Mark Twain, Appleton’s Journal, 1874...
What’s going on in the Democratic Republic of Congo is perhaps one of the most complex stories around. It’s a story that’s not being told comprehensively or with the degree of in-depth awareness the situation demands. Here are...
Elisabeth Eaves 01.16.07, 6:00 PM ET In an evermore digitized world, the printed word takes on special value--especially if it happens to be enshrined in a rare, beautiful and historically significant book. A 15th-century...
Ford, Ford Madox, 1873–1939, English author; grandson of Ford Madox Brown. He changed his name legally from Ford Madox Hueffer in 1919. The author of over 60 works including novels, poems, criticism, travel essays, and...
For the past few years, on November 11th, we’ve offered the following challenge to SFFaudio readers: “We’ll give you an audiobook if you make one for everyone else.” Sweet deal huh? And, we’re offering the same deal this year....
