The 12 best innovative, experimental, and avant-garde writers of all time are Folarin, Kandasamy, Wallace, Calvino, Stein, Ginsberg, Baker, Brecht, Jarry, Wachowski, Kaufman, and Nolan. These writers expressed themselves in novels, plays, poems, and via screenplays. Innovation began when words were first committed to paper, and that tradition continues as strongly as ever today! The … Read more
Science fiction is worth reading because of the extraordinary creative works that exist in this genre, and the talented writers who compose science fiction including Orwell, Card, Adams, Verne, Asimov, Gaiman, Herbert, Le Guin, Bradbury, and Wells. Below we examine the works of each of these authors, and consider whether science fiction is worth reading … Read more
The 10 best absurdist writers are Camus, Kōbō Abe, Stoppard, Beckett, Pinter, Albee, Ionesco, Kafka, Vonnegut, and Heller. Absurdism is a philosophy which has roots in the philosophy of Existentialism: both address questions related to the meaning of life. Where Existentialism offers modes of meaning, Absurdism proposes life is … absurd! This is symbolized most famously … Read more
Haiku describes the seventeen syllable Japanese poetic tradition, with words arranged over three lines using a five-seven-five syllable structure. There are similarities between Haiku and Imagist poetry, with Modernist poets like Ezra Pound and H. D. (Hilda Doolittle) expressing an admiration of the Japanese form. Many of the writers described below wrote originally in Japanese, … Read more
Yes, Enid Blyton remains entirely worth reading. In 1982, she was voted the most popular author by 10,000 eleven-year-old children. After Agatha Christie, Jules Verne and Shakespeare, she’s also the most translated author of all time. Where to Start Reading Enid Blyton? If you enjoy reading about topsy-turvy worlds and strange, illogical and funny characters, … Read more
The best speechwriters of all time are Sarah Hurwitz, Ted Sorensen, Sir Ronald Millar, Josef Berger and Jon Favreau. These speechwriters have not only inspired aspiring speechwriters, but have also inspired nations and citizens across the globe with their rhetoric and command of language. Sarah Hurwitz Image: Thor Brødreskift / Nordiske Mediedager With beginnings as … Read more
The best comedy playwrights are Wilson, Churchill, Shakespeare, Wilde, Stoppard, and Coward. These names have loomed large over the world of theatrical giggles, and as their works are constantly revived they are likely to continue to do so for many decades to come! August Wilson Wilson is a titan of the American theatrical scene. While … Read more
The Age of Sensibility is the period in British literature which sits between and 1745 and 1798. The greatest Age of Sensibility writers are Burney, Johnson, Sheridan, Goodsmith, and Sterne. They were titans in their own time and still influential and enjoyed today! Sensibility refers to the ability to appreciate and understand emotions: in this … Read more
The Victorian era roughly corresponds with the life of Queen Victoria (1837 – 1901), but according to some it does spill out a little to each side as well. Before the Victorian era comes the Georgian period, and the Edwardian period followed after. This period features Britain as the dominant global power, the Irish famine, … Read more
Akira Toriyama is one of the most popular and commercially successful manga artists. He’s a down to earth guy, apparently regularly getting reprimanded for turning up late and dressing casually at his first job, in advertising. He was blown away by several animated series he viewed as a child, and although determined to do something … Read more