Margaret Mitchell and Mark Twain are two authors who are often discussed in the context of racism in literature. Gone With the Wind  a...

Here’s a fun fact for you: At a time when the average household income was less than $500 per year, that venerated man of the people,...

"Really our Fourth of July is our day of mourning, our day of sorrow. Fifty thousand people who have lost friends, or who have had ...

“I began to occupy my house on the 4 th of July, as soon as it was boarded and roofed…” —from Walden , by Henry David Thoreau “N...

A gratuitous re-post from last year, but with some new additions:

So, what are we looking at here? No, it’s not a heart-beat—or maybe it is, in a way, come to think of it. What we’re looking at is the Goo...

INTERVIEWER Can you say how you started as a writer? FAULKNER I was living in New Orleans, doing whatever kind of work was n...

Today we turn to that classic of classics, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn . But we’ll tackle it with a slight twist. You see, I’d lik...