Young Peter Orlovsky looks like he could have lit “ the world on FAH-EE-UH ” years before the idea struck Fun’s lead vocalist (Nate Ruess....

We’ve covered Eudora Welty’s influence on a Grammy-winning album here . But she may also have inspired the titles of a couple of fam...

In 1917, H.L.  Mencken published an essay about what he saw as the abject, cultural wasteland of the American South, titled “The Sahar...