Artists use sketchbooks to store ideas for future use.  Bloggers have folders of bookmarks.  And some authors keep notebooks or "commonplace" books. One well-known author recorded "ideas, images, & quotations ha...

A little-known leaflet by Upton Uxbridge Underwood circulated in 1913 judges men in a different way, not by their works, but by their fabulous facial hair. His masterpiece, The Language of the Beard, an epicurean treat...

Graduate designer Laura Cahill makes vases and furniture...from books. Cahill, who uses books from secondhand stores, found that old books are very difficult to recycle because of the glue used in the binding process. In...

Yes, that's right, just what you always wanted... apocalyptic horror in your Austen. I know I'll be ordering one for every middle school student I know.Pride and Prejudice and Zombies features the original text of Jan...

In 2000, the publishing giant Random House assembled a board of authors and literary critics to list the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century.The Zeray Gazette blog has the list (of which I reprinted the...

Writers agree that pens are mightier than...  ...hdie (1947 - )A lot of people think that literature is just, well, a particularly brainy sor...

Many writers seek extreme experiences, in...  ...responsible for some of the world's greatest literature . Here are 5 classics written under the i...  ...lism and despite his importance in many fields of literature , thought, and politics, he's completely...  ...is more important than its actua...