The Theory of Everything: An Imperfect Romance of Love and Science
By Alex Nicoll The Theory of Everything begins with a scene of Stephen Hawking riding a bicycle. This image is all foreshadowing: of Stephen’s impending…
Tag: Biography
The 2015 Literary Fauxscars: And the Nominees are…
By Amanda Festa Award show season is here again, and while the Academy Awards has its merits, one “Best Adapted Screenplay” category hardly seems like…
A Zelda Fitzgerald Reading List
By Caitlin O’Hara Why does Zelda Fitzgerald continue to hold our attention 65 years after her death? Yes, she was beautiful, artistic, volatile, and often…
Is Eustace Conway ‘The Last American Man?’
By Amanda Festa Elizabeth Gilbert’s biography of Eustace Conway began as an article for GQ in 1998, but her affection for Conway began some time…
Oscar Wilde’s West
By Jan Wellington Of the countless stories, novels, and plays inspired by and featuring Oscar Wilde, a significant number bear the title, “The Wilde West.” …
I Am Providence: The City that Made H.P. Lovecraft
By Robert Anasi I never can be tied to raw new things, For I first saw the light in an old town, Where from my…
St. John’s, Lucy, My Brother
By Jennifer Ciotta Jamaica Kincaid was born Elaine Potter Richardson on May 25, 1949 in the capital of Antigua and Barbuda, which is called St.…
The Lessons of Youth: Ernest Hemingway as a Young Man
by Francis McGovern The year 1999 was the Centennial of the birth of Ernest Miller Hemingway, a writer who was a legend during his own…