“After Shakespeare, my favorite poet is Dante. My favorite novelists are Proust and Tolstoy, closely followed by Scott Fitzgerald, a...

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...

We’ve posted about “literary” fan fiction before - where fans take a classic book and continue or add to the story using their own idea...

I poked a little fun at Billy Shakespeare the other day , pointing out a rough similarity in body counts between King Lear  and the comedy/...

Yesterday’s post may have left you with the impression that I didn’t enjoy King Lear  in the least. Not true. There’s lots to like. ...

They can mow people down like no one else. One of my goals for the year was to read something old school, so I picked up King Lear  ...

Well, yesterday I intimated that Hemingway was a simpleton. A pox upon me. To make amends, I thought we’d stack him up against his ...