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With six published novels under his belt, you might think J.A. Konrath has it made. But, if you know much about the current publishing market, you could certainly question that. Made or not, JA made a very interesting discovery recently when he sat...
A quick weekend fyi: The Teaching Company, which provides university courses for lifelong learners like you, is running another sale this weekend. This one lasts until Sunday night and lets you get sharp discounts on their 75 most popular courses,...
This one comes straight from our collection of Free Online Movies. Beat the Devil is a 1953 classic directed by the great John Huston and co-written by Truman Capote, which stars Humphrey Bogart, Jennifer Jones, and Gina Lollobrigida. Not a bad lineup....
We take you back to 1967, to the three-day Monterey Pop Festival in California, which was kind of a precursor to the Woodstock Festival held in 1969. Monterey marked, among other things, the first major American appearances by Jimi Hendrix and The Who....
Newly launched: The Shakespeare Quartos Archive is a new digital collection that features pre-1642 editions of William Shakespeare’s plays. Here, for example, you will find rare early editions of Hamlet, including all 32 existing quarto copies of the...