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—Andrew Wyeth, American painter

For Epic magazine, Hitt writes about a daredevil helicopter pilot for a Phoenix station who "kept breaking the fourth wall of journalism by beating the cops"

The Poets House is a hidden literary gem in the city where an "old-fashioned" art and nonfiction thrive — and marginalized voices can learn to freely speak

—Percy Bysshe Shelley, from "A Defence of Poetry and Other Essays"

His poems about his hometown, Detroit, were almost cinematic in a precision of detail that would embarrass the most economic writer

A weekly roundup of some favorite things, for your reading and listening pleasure

The California Sunday piece unpacks loss and resilience in the aftermath of the country's military dictatorship through the story of one family

—Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary," 1911.

The historical novelist talks about his Boston Globe Magazine yarn and how he answered the question, "Who were America's first detectives?"

In a remarkable speech at the recent Power of Storytelling gathering in Romania, the Pulitzer-winning writer is true to the conference's name