Thus Blogged Anderson

NMC notes that the Pulitzer Prizes are out, and for the first time since 1977 , the board has refused to make an award. The way it works i...

He was always writing, and even then he wrote long. His sixth-grade essays dwarfed everyone else’s. His senior thesis at Princeton — on exis...

Stumbled upon a lecture of Twain's on the prose style of James Fenimore Cooper. Summary would be invidious: Here is a passage from Ch...

Hillary Clinton is apparently a big fan of “Texts From Hillary,” the viral site imagining the Secretary of State messaging various celebriti...

Kingfish reports that Gov. Phil Bryant has evidently decided that stronger beer is not a victory for Satan. In honor of this event, here...

According to the testament of the founder, the African kingdom had lineally descended to Hilderic, the eldest of the Vandal princes. A mild ...

Eudora Welty -- a ___________ fan, friend, and influential booster -- described his novels as stories of "the absence of love." H...