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Jenny Shank In this tour of the Mile High City, novelist Jenny Shank visits the sites, writing groups, organizations, and presses that keep her hometown's literary spirit alive in the bootstrapping tradition of those “roaring drunken miners” who founded...

In this Sept. 8, 2014 photo provided by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, poet Terrance Hayes poses for a photo at his home in Pittsburgh. Hayes was named Wednesday, Sept. 17, 2014, as one of 21 people to receive a “genius grant” from...

Olga García Echeverría  At Dinner by Bao Phi In Vietnamese: They put salt from the sea on chocolate now! Then, sudden as a dip in a wave, tones in the language all hats and heavy dots and slashes up or down, intuitively rising and falling, how...

It’s been a full two decades since prime-time television has seen an Asian American family sitcom. But ABC’s new show Fresh Off the Boat, loosely based on celebrity chef Eddie Huang’s memoir, is changing that. Though the very first Asian American family...

August 7 117:  The Roman Emperor Trajan passed away.  Trajan came to think of himself as another Alexander the Great and moved east towards Babylonia with the intent of extending the boundaries of the Roman Empire .  One of Trajan’s first moves was...