According to News Source, NPR : The famously reclusive author J.D. Salinger has died at his New Hampshire home, his literary representative...

Another gem has popped up on The Oatmeal — this time touching on the difficulty of using a semicolon. Although a bit silly (and perhaps a t...

by Douglas Grudzina In a few short weeks, Thursday, May 6, to be exact—you do realize that we’re already at the end of January, don’t you?—m...

Which famous writer is buried in the Fluntern Cemetery, Zurich, Switzerland, and is so close to the Zurich Zoo that the zoo's lions can ...

“I’m just sayin’ . . .” has become a stock phrase on the blogs and a kind of official sign-off on Twitter. I’ve had several questions from ...

According to a variety of resources including Yahoo News , the famous "Poe Toaster" has failed to show up at the graveside of Edg...

I’ve been thinking about story. Not a specific story but the concept, the notion of story. And this notion has rattled around my cranium for...

What famous American's 1952 autobiography is entitled From Under My Hat ? What famous writer born in 1867, was raised by a former slave,...

“You guys” and “You all” are in a tight race for second person plural pronouns these days. The southern contraction “y’all” counts as a “yo...

Like a costume, well-written books allow the reader to don a cloak and become someone new. Or, like a webcam, they invite the reader to b...