November 2 marks el Dia de los Muertos, or the Day of the Dead, a Mexican holiday that spins death on its head. The holiday goes back almost 3,000 years, when indigenous Mexican tribes such as the Olmec, ...

Let’s get this out of the way right now: you should never skim great literature. The comic intricacies of Gustave Flaubert’s prose should not be reduced to the details of his plot and Walt Whitman’s poetry deserves to be read at length, and out loud.

Leanne Milway Chabalko is a copywriter in San Francisco whose career achievements and professional background echo the trajectory of the online journalism and advertising boom. Now an established copywriter ...

There is a scene from the Academy Award Winning movie A River Runs Through it where a young boy brings his paper to his teacher, repeatedly, for review. Time after time, the burly teacher hands young ...

“I believe in putting the horror in the mind of the audience and not necessarily on the screen.” – Alfred Hitchcock, in an interview with BBC reporter Huw Wheldon, May 5, 1965.

The following five short stories are Halloween classics and are certain to send chills down your spine. From vampires, to skeletons, and headless horsemen, this post has it all. Once you’ve read ...

One of the great things about the English language is the way it is constantly evolving (for instance, the phrase “Schwing!” was all the rage in the early ‘90s, and hardly anyone says that anymore. Ask ...

Matthew Clark Davison is, among other things, a fiction writer, lecturer at San Francisco State University, an Artist Mentor with the San Francisco Performing Arts Workshop, a private writing coach, and teacher of a non-academic writing workshop called The Douglass Street Lab. ...

Meet Larry Smith: writer-editor extraordinaire. His writing has appeared in publications such asThe New York Times,Men’s Journal,Popular Science,Slate, andSalon. He was also the senior editor atESPN The Magazine, executive editor atYahoo! ...

Halloween is almost here! Do you have your costume figured out? No? Me either. So, we at Eduify thought we’d help you out. Below are five Halloween costume ideas derived from books, which means you have the added bonus of being able to carry the book your costume is from (just kidding). ...