How to Live Forever: Directed by Mark Wexler. With Suzanne Somers, Phyllis Diller, Ray Bradbury, Jack LaLanne. Baby boomer Mark Wexler travels the world searching for the secrets of long life.
As Ray Bradbury says: “Write a short story every week. It's not possible to write 52 bad short stories in a row.” Go write! When it comes to writing short stories, what do you find most challenging? Let me know in the comments. PRACTICE For today’s practice, let’s just take ...
Mark Twain grew up in the Midwest. His novels and stories reflect this upbringing and locale through the language and dialect of his characters. His later years were not spent in the Midwest. He travelled extensively before settling down, and eventually passing away in 1910. ...
How old was Ray Bradbury when he wrote "Fahrenheit 451"? How old was JK Rowling when she wrote Harry Potter? How old is Volumnia in Coriolanus? How old was Virginia Woolf when she wrote Jacob's Room? How old was T.S. Eliot when he wrote Four Quartets?
How old was Ray Bradbury when he died? How old was Langston Hughes when he wrote I Too? How old is Rab in Johnny Tremain? How old is Eveline in James Joyce's short story? How old is Delia Jones in the short story Sweat? How old is Don Quixote? How old is Miss Marple? How old...
For one thing, I wanted to grab readers and lure them into exploring real science, just as I was captivated as a boy by the imaginative writings of legendary science fiction writers Isaac Asimov, Robert Heinlein, Ray Bradbury and Arthur C. Clarke. Their books, which launched flights of ficti...
If you’ve read Ray Bradbury’sMartian Chronicles, you may be familiar with the resonance ofOut of This World. Chahi’s game isn’t so subtle as Bradbury’s dying Mars, which is steeped in the warm embrace of a final, luminous slumber. However, at the same time, Chahi’s vision may ...
Kate Chopin: Kate Chopin was an early American feminist writer. She wrote during the late 19th century, and her most famous work is her novelThe Awakening.While Chopin is most known for her novels, she wrote many short stories in her lifetime as well. ...
Just three months later on New Year's Eve, he died in a plane crash. Clemente, as good a humanitarian as he was a ballplayer, was on his way to Nicaragua to deliver relief items after an earthquake devastated the Central American country. Clemente was 38. He was elected into Baseball'...
There are famous names here too: 94-year-old exercise guru Jack LaLanne (now, of course, deceased), writers Ray Bradbury and Pico Iyer, comedienne Phyllis Diller (very funny), restaurant critic Jonathan Gold (almost alarming in his appetite), actress/best-selling author Suzanne Somers and biom...