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....

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

Life’s been so busy since my July vacation that I’ve basically stopped checking in on most of the literary blogs I follow- so my apologies...

We're all familiar with the monumental genius of Harper Lee's classic book  To Kill a Mockingbird. It turns out that the charac...