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Ray Bradbury used 98 dimes to write the first draft of "Fahrenheit 451" on a coin-operated...
Boing Boing· 5 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 ...
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 ...
Inside Author Meg Gardiner's Latest Thriller About Dueling Serial Killers: 'Dark and Twisted Minds'
People via Yahoo News· 5 hours agoNancy Drew? GARDINER: Of course, Nancy Drew. Also Madeleine L’engle, The Black Stallion series, Ray ...
The Metrograph Summer Book Fair Will Celebrate Legendary Editor Robert Gottlieb’s Private Collection
Indiewire via Yahoo News· 6 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· 7 days ago“‘Technology, mass exploitation, and minority pressure carried the trick when it came to...
In Nicolette Polek’s ‘Bitter Water Opera,’ Finding Yourself Is a Spectral Affair - The Village Voice
The Village Voice· 3 days agoThis is the titular “bitter water,” a Jewish trial by ordeal discontinued around 70 AD. In her debut novel, Bitter Water Opera, Nicolette Polek, an acclaimed short story writer and recent graduate ...
Diana Walters: A Boomer's Ruminations - Quotes To Live By
The Chattanoogan· 6 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...
