If Ernest Hemingway were alive today, he would have just turned 117 years old. Just think how many more amazing books he could have written if he were still alive. Tragically, Hemingway committed ...

When it comes to writing a book, there are many reasons to emulate the masters. Proust famously wrote in bed, while Joan Didion took an hour before dinner to read that day’s writing with a drink in ...

Fifty-four years ago, on a July day in 1961, the world awoke to the horrendous news that a giant of American literature had died at his own hand, from a shotgun blast to the head, just days short of ...

Ernest Hemingway wrote that all American literature derived from one book, Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. In a similar sense, one could argue that modern English prose owes its debt to ...

Close your eyes and try to imagine all the materials, artifacts, and letters housed at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library. Did you imagine an archive of materials from Ernest Hemingway? It turns ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...

Ernest Hemingway was a man of letters in more ways than one. The celebrated author of many books also had many friends he wrote letters to. And as Rita Braver now shows us, more than 50 years after ...

College is a time for experimenting with too much alcohol and writing badly about the bad sex you had. It’s the only way to figure out your drinking limitations and to learn to write better on a ...