SENTIMENTALITY, under some one of its many forms, is ever ready to fasten on literatures that have become polished, and on social coteries in whose culture the intellectual mode has any part; for ...

When it comes to recognizing good literature, you've got all kinds of prizes - the National Book Award, the Nobel, the Booker. But when it comes to recognizing truly bad writing, there's the ...

Having a writing contest named after you more than a century after your death would seem to be a great honor. Not so, if your name was Edward Bulwer-Lytton. His legacy stemmed not from some of his ...

Handing her Carstairs Brothers business card across the dirty tablecloth to the sweaty, balding, 300-pound form of Jakub Svoboda, young Heather Gerchik found her excitement over her first overseas ...