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Ray Bradbury used 98 dimes to write the first draft of "Fahrenheit 451" on a coin-operated...
Boing Boing· 2 hours agoBefore PCs and word processors, coin-operated typewriters were am option for people who couldn't afford their own machines. To use the typewriter, you would insert a coin or token, and it would ...
Inside Author Meg Gardiner's Latest Thriller About Dueling Serial Killers: 'Dark and Twisted Minds'
People via Yahoo News· 2 hours agoNancy Drew? GARDINER: Of course, Nancy Drew. Also Madeleine L’engle, The Black Stallion series, Ray ...
Column: What makes writing beautiful?
SC Cloud | St. Cloud Times via Yahoo News· 2 days agoBeautiful writing has always moved me, like this line from “The Dragon” by Ray Bradbury: "Now only the night moved in the souls of the two men bent by their ...
The Metrograph Summer Book Fair Will Celebrate Legendary Editor Robert Gottlieb’s Private Collection
Indiewire via Yahoo News· 3 hours agoExclusive: The late former The New Yorker editor-in-chief was at the center of 2022 documentary...
Acting alone, San Antonio school librarians are ousting books
San Antonio Express-News· 3 days agoForced to comply with a new state law barring sexually explicit content and targeted by pressure...
Let's Raise a Glass to These 35 Great Beer Quotes
Parade· 5 days agoCheers to one of the world's best beverages.
The Toni Morrison Award Winners: Fighters in the Censorship Trenches
The New Republic via Yahoo News· 6 days ago“‘Technology, mass exploitation, and minority pressure carried the trick when it came to...
Gateway - Jalopnik
Jalopnik· 5 hours agoNASA is investigating the cause of the helicopter’s death, but the agency says that the Ingenuity clipped one of its wings, so to speak, having struck one of its rotor blades on the ground, ...
Diana Walters: A Boomer's Ruminations - Quotes To Live By
The Chattanoogan· 5 days agoIn 1964 Norman Cousins, a prominent writer, was diagnosed with a crippling, incurable disease. As we...
Why It’s a Vital Time for Short Stories
Esquire via Yahoo News· 7 days agoIn a publishing climate built to sell novels, short fiction is an endangered species. Zach Williams, author of ‘Beautiful Days,’ explains why you might...