Bestselling author Dan Brown likes to claim that the historical events in his novels are ‘fact,’ but how much is true?
Every great novel—or at least every finished novel—needs a plan.
A catalog of 49 drinks culled from great works of film and literature, depicting everything from Philip Marlowe's Gin Gimlet to Fredo Corleone's Banana Daiquiri to the simple yet effective Buttermaker Boilermaker.
Some of the literary games that have been produced over the years are classics in their own right, while others are... well, they tried.
Sometimes reading a 350-page novel is just too much work. And CliffsNotes can also be a pain, what with all the summaries and indexes and character maps. Geez, why does reading have to be so HARD?!
The Department of Justice is suing Apple over price-fixing in the eBook market. The DOJ's latest piece of evidence is an email that Apple CEO Steve Jobs sent News Corp executive James Murdoch.
“Spelling-fight,” “spelling school,” “spelling match,” “trials in spelling,” “spelling combat,” “spelldown.” It seems that no fixed name for the activity existed, and yet Americans always understood exactly what was meant.
These excerpts from a 31-page photocopied writers’ guide for the original Star Trek series show how early Trek episodes were crafted. The guide, written in 1967, was meant to help writers for the year-old show—as well as prospective writers working on spec scripts—nail the tone and content of a typical “Trek” episode.
The Bible has been called "the greatest story ever told." Steve Jones begs to differ. In "The Serpent's Promise," Jones, a British geneticist and outspoken anti-religionist, sets out to retell the Bible from the point of view of science.
He’s widely considered one of America’s greatest novelists. So then why is Fitzgerald, who is more famously associated with places such as Paris, New York and the French Riviera, buried near a highway surrounded by concrete strip malls in Rockville, Maryland?
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