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British literary giant Roald Dahl had an interesting heritage; born in Wales to Norwegian parents, Dahl was raised by his mother after his father's death. Despite his obvious literary genius, Dahl did not attend college after graduating from high...

Roxane Gay's Difficult Women is certainly an interesting book. Released in January 2017, this short story collection is a follow-up to her massively successful essay collection called Bad Feminist (which was released in 2014). Julia Fesenthal of...

At 404 pages, The Doctor Stories is a collection of handpicked short stories by Richard Selzer himself. It holds thirty years of his previous work, two new additions, and an introduction delving into his beginnings as a writer and the birth of his...

Originally published in 1974, Rituals of Surgery is Richard Selzer’s first collection of short stories. It indulges in the not-so-openly discussed perspective of surgical doctors and the experiences they go through when treating patients. The...

Over the course of his illustrious career, Stephen King has written more than a dozen bonafide classic novels. In fact, prior to the release of The Shining (his third book), he published two classics in the form of Carrie and 'Salem's Lot. The...

Film critic Roger Ebert wrote that, while watching Hard Candy, "There is undeniable fascination in the situation as it unfolds... Seen as a film, seen as acting and direction, seen as just exactly how it unfolds on the screen, Hard Candy is...

One of MSNBC's most prominent talking heads, Maddow has never been one for holding back when it comes to expressing her opinions, or being gentle upon those who do not share them. In her 2019 book Blowout she explores her obsession with the issue...

In many ways, Sam Raimi's Spider-Man revolutionized the film industry and put superhero movies on the map. The film tells the origin story of Spider-Man, chronicling Peter Parker's life and the various hardships he experiences. Primarily, though...

"I want something to do." These are the first words in the narrative of Tribulation Periwinkle, the young protagonist of Hospital Sketches, and the autobiographic figure representing Louisa May Alcott. The book is, in fact, a compilation of four...

Over the course of his over 40 year career, Kurt Vonnegut wrote a number of books, many of which have become revered American classics. Sirens of Titan was the second of his many novels. A comedic science fiction story, most of Sirens of Titan...

If you are one of millions of children who over the years have been told to go outside and get some fresh air, you will be surprised to discover that this was actually an instruction with a sound scientific basis. Richard Louv penned this book in...

There is relatively little known about Middle English poet Thomas Hoccleve, whose career spanned most of the reign of King Henry IV.For much of this reign he held the office of Privy Seal, which was an honor, but also a cause for complaint for...

For a writer who has made such a profound impact upon the world literature scene as Saida Herzi, there is notoriously little information readily available for fans, critics, students, scholars or just some randomly typing letters into a search...

Thriller and horror novelist Joe Schreiber's foray into young adult fiction produced an entertaining handbook for young con artists everywhere. The book's protagonist, Will Shea, has been raised to be a con artist, and his entire life has hurtled...

The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-Town America (1999) constitutes author Bill Bryson's first of many travel books. It details Bryson's nearly fourteen-thousand mile car journey, which started in his hometown of Des Moines, Iowa and took Bryson...

When the postal service discovered child pornography from the Netherlands in a package addressed to Arnold Friedman, of Great Neck, New York, investigators were dispatched to his home where they discovered a large collection of magazines similar...

The book "Women and Alcohol in Highland Maya Town" is written by Christine Eber and published in 1995. It is a feminist analysis of gender culture, tradition, religious change, and drinking habits in highland Chiapas. The writer researched the...

Nappily Ever After was distributed by Netflix who also produced it alongside Marc Platt Productions and Badabing Pictures. Adam Brooks and Cee Marcellus wrote the screenplay which was based upon Trisha R. Thomas' book "Nappily Ever After." The...

Sarah Baartman was a Khoekhoe woman, descending from the indigenous nomadic people of southwestern Africa. She was known as the Hottentot Venus, and in the early part of the nineteenth century was put on display throughout Europe, much like other...

Orphan of Asia, completed in 1945, is an autobiographical novel by Chuo-liu Wu, dramatizing the internal, external, and personal struggles of the protagonist Hu Taiming. This central character is “born in Japanese-occupied Taiwan” and grows up...

Patience Agbabi is a black British female poet born in London in 1965. Some of her poems include The Doll's House, Telling Tales, and What Do Women Like Bes'? to name three out of the many published.

The Doll’s House is a very critically acclaimed...

Published in 1973, Stephen King's Carrie is an epistolary horror novel that takes the form of collected newspaper clippings, letters and diary entries to tell the tale of how bullied misfit Carrie White uses her telekinetic powers to avenge her...

Denying History: Who Says the Holocaust Never Happened and Why Do They Say It? (released in 2002) is a collaboration between Michael Shermer and Alex Grobman with the goal of explaining and perhaps more importantly, debunking the growing movement...

The Diary of Anais Nin is the publication of the real manuscript diary of Anais Nin, hence the title. Nin started the diary at the age of 11 in 1914 while on a trip from Europe to New York with her mother and two brothers. She started it initially...