Acclaimed director Chistopher Nolan's The Odyssey is coming out this summer, and the official trailer dropped yesterday. Before I give my two cents, let me begin by saying that I have nothing but respect for creators. It requires an unfathomable amount of energy to direct an epic on this scale, and I'm under no illusions that I could do a better job. Furthermore, I'm not some stick in the mud who thinks the classics can never be interpreted. I've written several such stories

What do you call the author who inspired Jane Austen? While we should be referring to Frances Burney as a trailblazer or literary genius, upon hearing her name, most of us would simply say..."Who?" My nighttime reading lately has been Rebecca Romney's Jane Austen's Bookshelf , which explores the books that inspired Jane Austen and plays right into my fascination with the story behind the story. I did my entire Master's thesis on the creative process of Elizabeth Peters , an

Ivanhoe really does feature everything you could want in an English adventure story: sword-fights, Robin Hood, Richard the Lionheart, damsels in distress, knights, heroes, scoundrels, and plenty of derring-do.

I recently drove from Texas to Minnesota, and decided it was high time I dive into some classic literature that's long haunted my TBR pile: specifically, anything by Sir Walter Scott.

'Great American novel' or 'worst school book ever'? Having recently annotated 'The Great Gatsby' for Vocabbett Classics, I'm here to say...

They say history is stranger than fiction, and nowhere is that more true that in the case of Agatha Christie. She may be one of the most...