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“Hurry up, Lauryn!”

Jean’s music is as eclectic as his influences.

Jean left Haiti at the age of nine only to end up the country’s roving ambassador.

It’s a question every writer asks themselves, either in the midst of sorting through overdue bills, during the dead hours of a suffocating block, or upon receipt of another rude […]

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Duke University Professor Cathy N. Davidson says scholars in the humanities need to unlearn old ways of teaching and publishing.

Following the successful end-runs of popular and critically-acclaimed HBO programs the Sopranos, Sex and the City, and The Wire, speculation ran rampant in the television industry about how the pay-TV […]

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Bill Scheft discusses the differences between comedy fiction and monologue writing, and his latest novel, “Everything Hurts.”

Bill Scheft doubts the political influence of Late Night comedy.

Don’t believe Larry David when he tells you he doesn’t resemble his screen persona, says his friend Bill Scheft.

Bill Scheft on the lifestyle of a Letterman writer.

Bad grades in Latin class led Bill Scheft to a career in comedy.

A conversation with the novelist and David Letterman Show writer.

Lost in the festivities commemorating Canada Day (July 1st), the Fourth of July, and Bastille Day (July 14th) has been the first celebration of what could become the world’s pre-eminent […]

The most important difference in Crete and the rest of Greece from the United States is that the majority of doctors here are well-trained and committed to good health care for their patients. Now is a good time for the U.S.A. to switch to Medicare Health Care for All: do away with superfluous paperwork, let patients keep their own records and take the temptation of pharmaceutical perks out of the doctor's office.

A conversation with the technology forecaster and essayist.

Companies need to get better at explaining to employees the intrinsic risks of their jobs, according to forecaster and essayist Paul Saffo.

Paul Saffo analyses the shift in power from producers in the industrial economy, to marketers in the consumer economy. He predicts that new “economic actors” who create and consume simultaneously […]

Forecaster and essayist Paul Saffo encourages customer service departments to only make promises they can keep.