David Baldacci said that he's a huge fan of Mark Twain, whose real name was Samuel Clemens, and has read everything he ever wrote
Why I Read asks authors from around the world about why they write, read, and what books influenced them.
With today’s feast, the Epiphany of the Lord, and the next Sunday’s, the Baptism of Our Lord, plus the Wedding Feast at Cana, we witness the three events in the life of Christ that prefigure his divinity.
“Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It’s not.” – Dr. Seuss, The Lorax
His death mourned around the globe, Gabriel Garcia Marquez was a giant of modern literature, a writer of intoxicating novels and short stories that illuminated Latin America’s passions, superstition, violence and social inequality.
Nobel laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez crafted intoxicating fiction from the fatalism, fantasy, cruelty and heroics of the world that set his mind churning as a child growing up on Colombia's Caribbean coast.
George Ade’s “Stories of Benevolent Assimilation (of the Philippines)” originally appeared in the Chicago Record once a week, from July 8 to Oct. 18, 1899, until collected in book form.
