Some advice — helpful and otherwise — on the literary life, from living authors and Aristotle.
Tag: Writing and Writers
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Rags-to-Riches Stories Are Actually Kind of Disturbing
From Horatio Alger and E.L. James to T. Boone Pickens and Charles Koch, books by and about the ultrawealthy reveal some of our darkest American fantasies.
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The People Who Hate Liberalism Are Teaching Us What It Is
Ukraine’s refusal to bend the knee to Vladimir Putin has reminded the West that life under liberalism is worth fighting for.
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Thomas F. Staley, Dogged Pursuer of Literary Archives, Dies at 86
As head of the Harry Ransom Center in Texas, he enhanced its holdings by acquiring the papers of a host of literary lions, and of Woodward and Bernstein to boot.
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Who Wrote the Pledge of Allegiance? It Might Be up for Debate.
More than a century after a Baptist minister from upstate New York took credit for writing the Pledge of Allegiance, new evidence suggests the possibility of a very different story.