This week, we're back in Europe to learn about Realism and Naturalism. In the 19th Century, playwrights like Eugene Scribe, Alexandre de Dumas Fils, and Emile Zola remade the French theater, first with Realism, and later with Naturalism....

You might being asking yourself-- Why do ghostwriters even exist? Isn’t that cheating? Isn’t literature supposed to be the result of one person’s agonizing need to create? Aren’t books supposed to be the blood, sweat, and tears of the...

The Nutcracker. A story that spawned a thousand childrens books and countless adaptations for the stage, and then eventually made it to the silver screen. But, the origins of the Nutcracker isn’t the history of one nutcracker story. In...