Curb your fretting, tadpole, or the frog of your future will fail to croak.'-Thaddeus
But above all, an author must write passionately and edit passionately.
Captain, sir,' called Coster from the rear of the shed. 'Cleared to shit.''Proceed,' Fa'ared called back.The Preceptor glared at Coster. 'Can you not wait?
Many people are partial to the notion that . . . all writers are somehow mere vessels for Truth and Beauty when they compose. That we are not really in This is a variation on that twee little fable t...
Autists are the ultimate square pegs, and the problem with pounding a square peg into a round hole is not that the hammering is hard work. It's that you're destroying the peg.
What you mean to find matters less than what you do find.
You could expect bread, cheese, preserved apples, eggs, and a solid draft of warm beer. Tea and coffee were only slowly taking hold at breakfast in the finer houses, and the city’s old Dutch families...
Even the few streets with unobstructed brick sidewalks were comically narrow—just wide enough, as one chronicler put it, to accommodate two lean men to walk abreast or one fat man alone.
Back then, Manhattan was the infant country
So far as any literary genre can be said to have been invented by one author, Edgar Allan Poe is that author, and the detective story is that genre.
If a book cover has raised lettering, metallic lettering, or raised metallic lettering, then it is telling the reader: To readers who do not care for such things, this lettering tells them:
Put the penis schematic away, he told the coroner.
You see, literary culture is perpetually dead and dying; and when some respected writer discovers and loudly proclaims the finality of this fact, it is a forensic marker of their own decomposition. It...
Leatherbound books are an expensive form of wallpaper, and yet every English nobleman’s home seems to have had them. Their endless sets of the works of Cooper and Scott and Goethe, in finely tanned bi...
Think of it: a disability is usually defined in terms of what is missing. … But autism … is as much about what is abundant as what is missing, an over-expression of the very traits that make our speci...
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When Jules Verne was on everyone’s nightstand, Pulitzer ordered daredevil reporter Nellie Bly to travel around the world in eighty days; she accomplished it in seventy-two.
For more fortunate readers, it reminded them that the action of the clytoris in women is like that of a penis to man, and the key to brifk and vigorous enjoyments—especially with cares and thoughts of...
The assembly proceeded to the new grave that would come to serve as a burial place for Edgar, Virginia, and Aunt Maria, reuniting the peculiar household that been Poe’s sorrow and solace in life. Ther...
I know the ways of the Mafia.