As you read this, thousands of writers hoping to be the next Stephen King or Anne Rice are toiling in obscurity, sending off manuscripts, and waiting on tenterhooks for Random House to ring their bell ...

The Beatles’ “Paperback Writer” came out days after The Rolling Stones‘ “Paint It Black.” Subsequently, Keith Richards said this was intentional. Notably, one of these tracks was ever so slightly more ...

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Smoothie King is releasing a romance novel written with the help of OpenAI’s ChatGPT software, according to a news release. “A Summer Fling to the X-Treme” details the budding relationship between a ...

Sonically and chronologically speaking, we don’t often associate Bachman-Turner Overdrive with the Beatles, but the Fab Four is precisely who Randy Bachman was trying to emulate with his 1974 track, ...

On June 16, 1966, the Beatles performed “Paperback Writer” and “Rain” on Top of the Pops. Like many artists before, and after them, who appeared on the BBC show, the Beatles lip-synced through the two ...

Paul McCartney said The Beatles went through a period in which they were writing songs inspired by the music of The Beach Boys. For example, one of The Beatles’ No. 1 hits features harmonies that are ...

Afterschool Education: Approaches to an Emerging Field by Gil G. Noam, Gina Biancarosa, and Nadine Dechausay (Harvard Education Press, 8 Story St., Fifth Floor, Cambridge, MA 02138; 120 pp., $21.95 ...

Up until the early part of this century, most drugstores in the United States had full-on newsstands that sold daily newspapers, the Racing Form, and weekly magazines. They also had MAD magazine, ...