Anne Frank June 12, 1929 – March 12, 1945 \’\’We aren’t allowed to have any opinions. People can tell you to keep your mouth shut, but it doesn’t stop you having your own opinion. Even if people are still very young, they shouldn’t be prevented from saying what they think.\’\’ \’\’No one has ever become poor […]
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Shakespeare’s life is as full of fiction as his plays are. In fact, historians have taken decades to separate the legends and bawdy stories from fact. Some of the juiciest tales are now debunked, while others are new theories to fill in the holes in his biography. Here are five “to-be-or-not” stories of the bard.
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Before Ernest Hemingway was a literary giant, he was a cub reporter. When Hem graduated high school at 18, he moved to Kansas City and started a six-month stint with the Kansas City Star—a job that molded his trademark punchy, staccato style. Some of his early reporting feels rushed and raw. The pieces read
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In this short excerpt from a Q&A as University of Virginia’s first Writer-in-Residence, Faulkner talks about The Sound and the Fury, and why it was his favorite novel. Listen to the full recording here.
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A lot of people swear by Goodreads. I swear at it. Often. It\’s a font of unsourced quotations, some of them fake, just like Wikiquotes. Take the line that tops the list of George Eliot quotes: \”It is never too late to be what you might have been.\” There\’s no proof she ever said it.
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Edna St. Vincent Millay reads her poem “Love is Not All.” Her high-faluting accent and theatrical style may seem dated today, but in the 1920s, Millay’s reading tours regularly sold out to rapt crowds.
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In a 1987 interview, Arthur Miller talks about his marriage to Marilyn Monroe. In addition to thoughtful insight into Monroe’s psychology, he discusses the reception of After The Fall, a play he wrote about his relationship with Monroe.
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In a pleasant Scottish brogue, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle talks about how he started writingSherlock Holmes (“I began to think of turning scientific methods, as it were, onto the work of detection”) and the character’s popularity (“I’ve even had ladies writing to say that they’d be very glad to act as [Holmes’] housekeeper”). Then the
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Julia Horeftari for Art-Sheep Greetings, my brave reader. ‘Do you not know that a man is not dead while his name is still spoken?’ – \”Going Postal\” [33rd Discworld novel] Terry Pratchett, Terry Pratchett, Terry, Pratchett… My childish and certainly feeble attempts to help keep Terry Pratchett alive are nothing compared to the legacy
Agape Charmani for Art-Sheep Marc Johns is the kind of artist who creates the most imaginatively smart illustrations, in which his characters get involved in the most surreal situations. And while his fans are always more than happy when he shares new work on his blog or his Facebook page, they\’re going to be thrilled
