Author Mark Twain was a foodie who waxed poetic when describing his favorite San Francisco treat. It was so popular in his ...

Mark Twain, born Samuel Clemens, was a pivotal American writer whose life near the Mississippi River profoundly shaped his ...

Mark Twain, a celebrated American writer, penned classics like Tom Sawyer and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. His life ...

Burning Bluebeard: Reimagines the 1903 Chicago Iroquois Theatre fire while blending comedy, vaudeville and drama; Saturday ...

Fitzgerald hymns American hubris for all time in a mere 52,000 pellucid words. Read the story of the eponymous Gatsby, the ...

"Stories passed from generation to generation. It was oral history, maybe, although sometimes the truth of the yarn was ...

T.S. Sridhar's book 'No.1 Vellala Street' celebrates his creative journey as a cartoonist, journalist, and playwright.

Mark Twain famously said, “History does not repeat itself, but it rhymes.” I’ve been thinking about the political historian ...

Kurt Vonnegut expresses admiration for one of the last promising places in America for people to feel: libraries and the ...

Paper Jane delves into the complex history of Jane Austen novels to track how she went from obscurity to literary and Hollywood stardom.

The Old Fashioned and the Champagne Cocktail seem like drinks on opposite ends of the sipping spectrum. The first is boozy, ...

The headless horseman who haunts Sleepy Hollow in Washington Irving’s ghost story has become an iconic figure in American popular culture, thanks to many film and TV adaptations, ranging from a 1922 ...