William Dean Howells, whose literary career began on the eve of the Civil War and ended after World War I, is one of the three most important American writers of the late nineteenth century. Samuel Langhorne Clemens and Henry James, both of whom were his...
William Dean Howells , whose literary career began on the eve of the Civil War and ended after World War I, is one of the three most important American writers of the late nineteenth century. Samuel Clemens and Henry James, both of whom were his close fr...
William Dean Howells combined a career as an important novelist with that of a journalist. As editor of The Atlantic Monthly and later as author of, or contributor to, the "Editor's Study" and "Editor's Easy Chair" columns in Harper's Monthly, he was an...
Byline: Robert McCoppin Daily Herald Staff Writer Some of the best answers come out of an awkward silence. When interviewing a witness to sketch a crime suspect, forensic artist Luis Santoyo asks open-ended questions about what the subject looked like. If...
Byline: Ted Cox At last, here is a good, old-fashioned summer replacement TV series: quirky, unconventional, funny and not quite as good as it thinks it is, which is what made it a summer replacement series in the first place. "The Downer...