While the increased availability of Ray Johnson’s letters, notes, and statements subtilizes our understanding of this legendarily well-connected yet enigmatic artist, his flattened logorrheia is also ...

MR. CARY, in the concluding chapter of his well-proportioned book on George William Curtis, 1 says : ” In writing the life of Mr. Curtis as an ‘ American Man of Letters ’ I have not forgotten his ...

Thursday morning, Axios reported that buyers would be able to make pre-sales purchases starting Thursday. Axios’s Mike Allen wrote that Trump’s book “is a flashback to the days when famous people ...

As Ana noted here yesterday, the Vice President is a man whose own letter-writing style displays a distinctive elegance and tender wit. So it was interesting to hear last night on Larry King his ...

Norman Podhoretz, a longtime NY Post columnist and editor of Commentary magazine, made the life of the mind a joyous sport.

The Grolier Club will present Richard Aldington: Versatile Man of Letters, a major exhibition highlighting the work of British poet, critic, translator, novelist, and biographer Richard Aldington ...

If the President had announced his intention of selling his radio fireside chats to an advertising sponsor, it could scarcely have caused more outraged bowlings than his spring publication list. The ...

SPRINGFIELD – You could call 98-year-old Walter Stitt a man of letters. Although he wasn’t letter perfect. There were some omissions. Here is what he remembers from Jan. 6, 1945. It was during the ...

THE purely literary character of a greatly popular writer is apt to be neglected ; or at least to remain a matter of lax or irresponsible opinion. His admirers have one reason, his detractors another, ...