The complete online text of The Guest of Quesnay by Booth Tarkington.

The prolific writings of American author Newton Booth Tarkington (1869-1946) include the novels "Penrod" and "Seventeen" and many successful Broadway plays. Booth Tarkington was born on July 29, 1869, the second child of lawyer John S. Tarkington and Eli...

The existence of an academic subject named socio-economics was news to me until this book arrived, and I feared it might turn out to be economics with the hard bits left out, on the pattern of the celebrated gibe about social history. That...

Get the nitty-gritty on creating a guest artist contract. When Jim Viera, artistic director of Boston Youth Moves Dance Company and cofounder of Jeannette Neill Dance Studio, first started booking guest artists, "all of my agreements were gentlemen's agreements," he says. "That is,...