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The Best American Short Stories yearly anthology is a part of The Best American Series published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Since 1915, the BASS anthology...

In his own time, William Shakespeare (1564–1616) was rated as merely one among many talented playwrights and poets, but since the late 17th century has...

Grazia Maria Cosima Damiana Deledda (Italian: [ˈɡrattsja deˈlɛdda]; Sardinian: Gràssia or Gràtzia Deledda [ˈɡɾa(t)si.a ðɛˈlɛɖːa]; 27 September 1871 – 15...

Arthur Philip Dent is a fictional character and the hapless protagonist of the comic science fiction series The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas...

Proceedings is a 96-page monthly magazine published by the United States Naval Institute. Launched in 1874, it is one of the oldest continuously published...

Perry Rhodan is a German space opera franchise, named after its hero. It commenced in 1961 and has been ongoing for decades, written by an ever-changing...

Tokyo Fiancée (French: Ni d'Ève ni d'Adam "Neither Eve nor Adam") is an autobiographical novel by the Belgian writer Amélie Nothomb. It appeared on 20...

An anacoluthon (/ænəkəˈljuːθɒn/; from the Greek anakolouthon, from an- 'not', and akólouthos 'following') is an unexpected discontinuity in the expression...

Šišmundo Menčetić (Italian: Sigismondo Menze), known simply as Šiško Menčetić (Croatian pronunciation: [ʃîʃko mɛ̂nt͡ʃɛtit͡ɕ]; 1457–1527) was a poet from...

Avis Favaro (born February, 1960) is Canada's longest serving on air medical correspondent – now with CTV National News since 1992. She has won numerous...

Montgomeryshire Collections (Welsh: Casgliadau Maldwyn) is the annual journal of the Powysland Club, containing scholarly articles on archaeological and...

Charles Jamrach (born Johann Christian Carl Jamrach; March 1815 – 6 September 1891) was a leading dealer in wildlife, birds and shells in 19th-century...

Elizabeth Searle is an American novelist, short story writer, playwright and screenwriter. She is the author of five books of fiction and a rock opera...

Susan Deer Cloud (born October 20, 1950) is an American writer of poetry, fiction, and creative essays. Previously she had work published under a former...

Bélisaire is a banned 1767 French novel on the life of the Byzantine general Belisarius by Jean-François Marmontel. It popularised the apocryphal tale...

Dokkaebi bangmangi (Korean: 도깨비 방망이; lit. The Goblins’ Club) is a Korean folktale that tells the story of a good woodcutter who comes into possession of...

The Railway Club was a society for railway enthusiasts, formed in 1899. The club provided regular meetings of general railway interest, and members had...

Chana Blanksztejn (floruit 1920s) was a Polish-Jewish writer and journalist, predominantly active in Vilna (now Vilnius, Lithuania). Noted for her significant...

The Best American Short Stories 2023 is a volume in the annual Best American Short Stories anthology. It was edited by the series editor, Heidi Pitlor...

The Ars Notoria (in English: Notory Art) is a 13th-century Latin textbook of magic (now retroactively called a grimoire) from Northern Italy. It claims...