A Hemingway lookalike contest that would make Papa proud
Gentlemen, start growing out your beards now for next year’s Ernest Hemingway lookalike contest, hosted annually in Key West according to WPTV. This year, over 100 Hemingway fanatics participated in the lookalike… Read more »
We asked, “Is it possible to make a team of soccer players with famous writers’ surnames from this year’s World Cup?” and the answer is “Yeah, kinda!”
As you may have heard, the World Cup started yesterday in Russia. The soccer World Cup. You know, the round ball? The one that isn’t basketball, football, or baseball? The… Read more »
David Bowie on Thanksgiving: Waiting in the Sky
Editor’s note: When JW McCormack—electric ghost of literatures forgotten and yet-to-come—originally agreed to let us run this piece, we were thrilled, because nobody writes like JW, and, for that matter, nobody… Read more »
![Nora Ephron: “There are a lot of mugs in the airport in [Seattle] that wouldn’t be there if it weren’t for me.”](https://cdn2.mhpbooks.com/2016/08/441px-Nora_Ephron-146x115.jpg "Nora Ephron: “There are a lot of mugs in the airport in [Seattle] that wouldn’t be there if it weren’t for me.”")
Nora Ephron: “There are a lot of mugs in the airport in [Seattle] that wouldn’t be there if it weren’t for me.”
I think that I wanted very early to be a journalist, and fell in love with the romance. It isn’t such a romantic profession anymore — journalism is in trouble.… Read more »