The complete online text of Poker! by Zora Neale Hurston.

Zora Neale Hurston (1903-1960), folklorist and novelist, was best known for her collection of African American folklore Mules and Men (1935) and her novel Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937), in which she charted a young African American woman's journey...

From the 1930s through the 1960s, Zora Neale Hurston was the most prolific and accomplished black woman writer in America. During that thirtyyear period she published seven books, many short stories, magazine articles, and plays, and she gained a reputat...

From the 1930s through the 1960s, Zora Neale Hurston was the most prolific and accomplished black woman writer in America. During that thirty-year period she published seven books, numerous short stories, magazine articles, and plays, and she also gained...

Cheryl Hines, star of HBO’s Curb Your Enthusiasm, has a card up her sleeve:She plays poker— and wins—against celebrities and professionals on the tournament circuit. She also loves trying her hand at Hollywoodpoker.com. Use her tips for boosting confidence and staying focused under pressure. It’s...

Flush--ha! Get it? "Flush"!--with excitement from last week's low-stakes scratch-off poker competition, this week the Media Mob and the Daily Transom decided to up the ante. What would happen if we played the New York Post's unwinnable "Post Poker" game as if it were real...

Internet poker players are raising the stakes in Washington.Threatened by a federal law that restricts online gambling, the Poker Players Alliance, a two-year-old lobbying group that says it represents 800,000 poker enthusiasts nationwide, plans on pressing Congress this week to consider several new bills that...

A Harvard Law School professor best known for defending the man who leaked the Pentagon Papers and for helping parents sue chemical companies in a case popularized by the film "A Civil Action" has a new cause: poker.Charles Nesson wants governments to relax restrictions on...