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Food expert Alton Brown wrote a collection of essays and now he's on his final large-scale tour to promote it. We had the ...
Scribbled in faded ink on yellowed paper, they included letters, poetry and other compositions apparently written and signed ... the playwright’s canon. James Boswell, Samuel Johnson’s ...
Whether you’ll be wearing a race bib or waving and cheering from the roadside, this is your ultimate companion to the 2025 ...
There are many basic but essential facts to be learned about Samuel Johnson. For example, he was born in 1709 and died in 1784. His life spanned the reign of four British Monarchs: Queen Anne ...
It’s a constant conversation, a perpetual Barney Greengrass breakfast, part of a work-life continuum rather ... Cimino signed on as director and James Toback as screenwriter — but then ...
John — whose three brothers William Paterson, Joseph and James also made it home from the front — never talked about the war. He only mentioned the diaries in a letter written the year before ...
‘I merely attend to the progress of my Life of Johnson’, wrote James Boswell in his journal on the eve of his fiftieth birthday in 1790. Every biographer knows that feeling: when you are in the middle ...
At its high point in the 1770s it brought together Johnson and Reynolds, James Boswell, Edmund Burke ... Some of their most important works were written during the years they were Club members and ...