The American Heritage Dictionary defines “pica” as “a printer’s unit of type size, equal to 12 points or about 1/6 of an inch,” which I expected, being the owner of
A century ago, George Bernard Shaw said, “The biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.” He’s probably grave-spinning in this Information Age that’s also the
Millions of young Americans went through hell on earth to prevent the fascist destruction of literature, history, and science. As a popular internet meme puts it, “You don’t have to
The world of literature has its share of bullies, such as the prototypical sucker-punching writer, Ernest Hemingway, who’s included in “Respected Writers Who Were Actually Terrible People,” a grunge.com article
Jamie Smith, Alaska’s top cartoonist, and my friend and occasional lecture partner, recently met with me to go over cover art he created for me, and, in the course of