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“I always wanted to be writer, but was told from an early age that such a dream was futile. After all, nobody ever puts a classified ad in the paper that reads “Writers Wanted.” Then, in the Village Voice, I source...

“But Luthor is unique - definitively the only great villain who is, by any reasonable standard, weaker than his archenemy. Remember, Superman isn’t just powerful - he’s also smart, and wise, and personable, and generally possessed of a huge number more...

“Very, very good post. I found it odd that one of the greatest questions historians have is how the Industrial Revolution came about, yet in any survey course of European history--the kind where the big, fat textbook covers European civilization source...

Watch the 1988 Soviet adaptation of Bulgakov's classic satire with English subtitles.

At a surrealist rally in the 1920s Tristan Tzara the man from nowhere proposed to create a poem on the spot by pulling words out of a hat. A riot ensued wrecked the theater. AndrÈ Breton expelled Tristan Tzara from more...

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As a teenager I read William S. Burroughs III book "Speed".. Scary stuff. Kids steer clear of this stuff.. it'l mess you up..

For fans of Bulgakov (May 15, 1891 - March 10, 1940), an acclaimed Soviet novelist and playwright. He is best known for the novel The Master and Margarita, which the New York Times Book Review called one of the greatest more...

“IT’S 8 a.m., Tuesday, Nov. 18, 2008, and you are headed for a business appointment 300 mi. away. You slide into your sleek, two-passenger air-cushion car, press a sequence of buttons and the national traffic computer notes your destination, figures source...

“Have you spent a good part of your writing life getting even?” Gass "Yes...Yes"

“It was not about escape, I wanted to tell Mr. Spector, thus unwittingly plagiarizing in advance the well-known formula of a (fictitious) pioneer and theorist of superhero comics, Sam Clay. It was about transformation.”

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Annotations, chapter by chapter, for Bulgakov's satirical novel "The Master and Margarita." Many possible explanations of names, situations, quotations or other elements which can be helpful to understanding the book have been included. Imagery from the the locales featured in more...

“The philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein returned time and again to The Golden Bough, often enough that his commentaries have been compiled as Remarks on Frazer's Golden Bough, edited by Rush Rhees, originally published in 1967, with the English edition following in more...