Most of Grant Allen's fiction is now forgotten and nearly all of it is out of print. His detective stories, however, many of which first appeared in the Strand Magazine, have earned critical praise, and volumes of his detective fiction are now sought by...
In the chapter of his Experiment in Autobiography (1934) called "Fairly Launched at Last," H. G. Wells looks back at the influence upon him at the beginning of his literary career. He recalls in particular that once much reviled and now rather too much f...
Prolific, versatile, original, even profound, Grant Allen dedicated his life to the quest for incontrovertible knowledge through the written word. Celebrated not only as a writer of literature and criticism but as a historian, naturalist, anthropologist,...
Recalled to Life is the fifth studio album from punk rock band The Deadweights. The album was released February 11, 1997 on Reprise Records, almost 10 years after the band's previous release. The album was the first since the band's 1995 reunion. It was...
Mourners mark anniversary of slain teenager's death At 6 p.m. Sunday, there were a half-dozen people gathered on the shady side of South Prince Street, just outside the house where, on March 9, 2007, Tyquan Hall was killed. Over the next few...
About 70,000 infant toys have been recalled, including 49,000 crib mobiles and 21,000 refrigerator magnet toys. Part of the mobile can detach and fall into the crib, possibly injuring young children. The magnet can come apart, releasing small plastic pieces that pose a...
Broadway has not hampered the considerable storytelling abilities of Chazz Palminteri."A Bronx Tale" (seen off-Broadway in 1989 and as a movie four years later), works just fine at the Walter Kerr Theatre, where Palminteri's enormously entertaining one-man show opened Thursday.The actor's 90-minute, semi-autobiographical story takes...
Hubert Green knows better than anyone how trivial it is to make golf tournaments seem like matters of life or death, to laud players for their courage and heroism under pressure-filled circumstances. When he was on the cusp of his major victory at Southern Hills...
