Ice on trees and snow on the ground, beauty mixed with danger. Photo: Jim Lo Scalzo/EPA In The Guardian, Richard Hirst gives us ghost stories by the fireside and perilous…Continue readingLiterary Winters
It might have been thought that my entire advanced formal education, my university career, had been wasted because I hold an MSc in Molecular Biology but worked in an actual…Continue readingScience in fiction?
How authors from Dickens to Dr Seuss invented the words we use every day The English language didn’t just spring from nowhere, Paul Dickson notes at The Guardian. So who…Continue readingWho invented…?
F. Scot Fitzgerald and his wife Zelda battled depression and led lives that eventually spun out of their control. They weren’t the only writers on that list, Cody Delistraty writes…Continue readingWhy are writers depressed?