Many school kids have a special affinity for e.e. cummings, who wrote about the circus and got away with funky punctuation, made-up...
On July 4, 1855, Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman was first published – to widespread shock and awe. Today’s literary classic was 1855’s...
It was the cause celebre of 1896: a statue of a naked drunken woman was gifted to the new Boston Public Library...
H.L. Mencken in 1926 fought back against the overzealous censorship that inspired the catchphrase ‘Banned in Boston.’ He did it by getting...