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Part visionary, part mad scientist, and absolute genius, Tesla should be as famous as Edison — but he’s been largely forgotten. Kurt talks with Samantha Hunt about her novel The Invention of Everything Else. Tesla is the protagonist, and despite the outlandish biographical details all through the book, there was very little she had to […]

July Update: The process for this month’s story was: use some of the work I actually do for a change, and some of the experiences I have had as a mom and write something short. I had …

Everyone worries about getting dotty as they age. But Patricia Marx actually did something about it — having her brain zapped, learning a language, and practicing the piano all day.

How “Penelope Ashe” pulled off the biggest literary caper of the century.  

Bestselling Young Adult author Angie Thomas on how the late TLC performer Lisa “Left Eye” Lopes spoke to her at a very troubling point in her life.