by Editor | Aug 23, 2016 | Interviews, Written
Have you ever wondered what intricate, elaborately-named drink your favorite authors and literary characters might order if they so-happened to wander into a Starbucks? What kind of tea would Jane Eyre drink? How many lattes would Mr. Darcy have to drink before he...
by Editor | Aug 2, 2016 | Interviews, Written
Joe McGinniss Jr. is the author of Carousel Court and The Delivery Man, a New York Times Book Review “Editor’s Choice” that is being turned into a feature film by Highland Films. The son of the late writer Joe McGinniss, he lives in Washington, DC with his family....
by Editor | Jul 8, 2016 | Interviews, Written
Narration is the foundation for the story. If the narrator has a strong voice, the rest of the story will typically follow suit. For the most part stories are narrated in first or third person, but sometimes departing from the familiar can be a huge benefit to the...
by Editor | Jun 28, 2016 | Interviews, Written
For Hadley Freeman, movies of the 1980s have simply got it all. In her new book, Life Moves Pretty Fast, Hadley puts her obsessive movie geekery to good use, detailing the decade’s key players, genres, and tropes. She looks back on a cinematic world in which bankers...
by Editor | Jun 21, 2016 | Interviews, Written
Beauty has long been shrouded in mystery. Many have attempted to understand it, to get closer to it – to define it through scientific research (my non-symmetrical face doesn’t come close), capture it through the arts (we’re lookin’ at you,...
by Editor | May 11, 2016 | Interviews, Written
Andrew Nagorski is an award-winning journalist and author who spent more than three decades as a foreign correspondent and editor for Newsweek. He is the author of several history books, most recently The Nazi Hunters, which gives a historical account of the...