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Seven Reads To Lift Your Holiday Spirit
The hustle and bustle of the holiday season are in full swing. While some of us may be roasting chestnuts on an open fire, others are feeling overwhelmed by the chaos. Winter is the perfect reading season, so why not avoid the mall mayhem and indulge in some light reading? Here are seven holiday reads…
You Don’t Know Dickens
7 lesser-known facts that may make you see the beloved author and philanthropist of the Victorian era in a new light... by Michelle Ossa 1. He suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder from his time at Warren's Shoeblacking Factory and Warehouse At the age of 12, Charles Dickens suffers a life-changing event that forever marks his life. His…
Charles Dickens: Ghost Hunter
Victorians were big on clubs. Gentlemen's Clubs. No, the Brontes were not wearing pasties and stripping to "Oh, Mother Take the Wheel Away!" These were exclusive gatherings of writers and artists who came together to chill, drink, and probably scratch-and-spit. No "damned scribbling women allowed." (Such a fun guy, that Hawthorne...) ANYWAY, Charles Dickens was…
ZZZZzzzz: Ten Books We Couldn’t Finish
My home is filled with books. Books on shelves, books overflowing shelves, books on my nightstand, in the kitchen, in the bathroom, on the floor. Most I manage to get through, if not always enjoy. I am a big believer in seeing it through. Most of my friends feel the same way. AND YET... there…
The Daily Rituals of Ten of the World’s Most Creative People
Do you have a daily ritual when you write? I don't know of a single writer who does not. Maybe it's summoning the Muse...everything must be just so if there is any hope of words appearing on paper. Most of us are NOT like the writer, Muriel Spark who, Ann Lamott notes, "is said to have felt that she was taking…
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New-Old Scribbles from Old, Old Authors
A curious trend seems to be spreading across the literary world whereby deceased authors' previously unseen scribblings are being brought into the light. First we had Hemingway's 47 alternate endings to A Farewell to Arms in print, then an uncovered and previously rejected short story by F.Scott Fitzgerald was published by The New Yorker. And this…