Deadline Artists

If the daily newspaper ever completely dies, then so will the reign of the great columnists, writers who used to enter our houses every morning, as familiar and welcome as good neighbors. This anthology collects representative work from the journalistic pantheon that stretches from Mark Twain to Maureen Dowd.

May 25: On this day in 1938 Raymond Carver was born. Carver's poem "Luck," about a nine-year-old who wakes to an empty house and the leftovers of his parents' party, is all too autobiographical: "What luck, I thought. / Years later,…

Angry robots! Aren't they all? Well, not the line of fine science fiction and fantasy books that comes to readers under the rubric Angry Robot. In fact, their offerings…

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