Ernest Hemingway’s reading list for a young writer, 1934
In 1934, a young student Arnold Samuelson read Ernest Hemingway’s short story “One Trip Across.” Inspired by what he had read, the 22-year-old decided to…
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Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes: Rare interview together from 1961
Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes discuss their work and life together in this interview for the BBC radio program Two of a Kind: Poets in…
Ernest Hemingway and the six-word short story
It is claimed Ernest Hemingway once wrote a six-word short story that could make people cry for a bet. The wager was ten dollars, which…
Ernest Hemingway’s burger recipe is the manliest thing you can do with a cow except beat it up
That’s a lot of butch in one photo My favorite Hemingway anecdotes always revolve around him being absurdly macho–like when he mocked F. Scott Fitzgerald…
Novelist Graham Greene played Russian roulette as a teenager
If the first volume of his autobiography A Sort of LIfe is to be believed, then the novelist Graham Greene did not have a very…
‘The Ballad of the Skeletons’: Allen Ginsberg, Paul McCartney & Philip Glass, together
Throughout his long career, Allen Ginsberg was keenly aware of the power of music–and an association with generationally key musicians, like Bob Dylan and The…
‘The Tutu’: Strangest novel of the 19th century?
Its author was a literary scoundrel par excellence, its very existence was long considered a hoax until it resurfaced in the 1990s, and its many…
‘The Ultimate Revolution’: Aldous Huxley lectures at Berkeley, 1962
Image via OzHouse Novelist, essayist, spiritual seeker, intellectual, humanist, and advocate for careful experimentation with psychedelic drugs. Aldous Huxley loved California. He enjoyed the open-mindedness,…
The ‘lost’ art of William Burroughs’ mind-bending unpublished graphic novel, ‘Ah Pook is Here’
When William S. Burroughs’ novella “Ah Pook Is Here” was published in 1979, it was in a form greatly diminished from the authors’ original intent.…
Bukowski reading ‘Something for the Touts, The Nuns, The Grocery Clerks And You’
Happy birthday Bukowski. You are seriously missed. “Something for The Touts, The Nuns, The Grocery Clerks And You” is Charles Bukowski at his absolute best–angry,…