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The age old pantomime of Punch and Judy is being recreated at the Barbican theatre in London, 350 years after the first recorded reference of the puppet show in the diaries of Samuel Pepys. Julian Crouch, director of The Devil and Mister Punch, and
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The Little Britain star is busy working on his first memoir, entitled Camp David, for release later this year, and the 40 year old is enjoying recalling experiences from throughout his life. He tells BBC's Newsbeat, "It's weird, in writing it you
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New York from celebrated diaries From its beginnings in the 1600s to its present-day status as teeming metropolis, New York City has always been a force of influence and culture in America . There are those who love it and those who hate it and that'
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The fascinating New York Diaries , edited by Teresa Carpenter (Modern Library, $26). New York Diaries compiles interesting diary entries from 1609 through 2009. It's organized by day, so you could feasibly enjoy it all year long, reading the
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If pressed to name the most important literary figure in my life, I'd quite happily dismiss Dickens and scoff at Shakespeare. It's provincial poet Adrian Albert Mole who's been my most dependable companion. Moley celebrates 30 years since the
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When Simone de Beauvoir, the French existentialist, first tried to smoke marijuana, she, like Bill Clinton, did not inhale. It was May 3, 1947, and she was as new to New York City as she was to the drug...O'Donnell/The New York Times Mario Ettlinger
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It was probably the biggest phenomenon of my youth after Star Wars, and Star Wars was bigger than God.' Photograph: Wolfgang Kumm/dpa/Corbis "I blame that Adrian Mole ," said my sea-scout master Roger. "Boys weren't obsessed with the length of their
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The wartime diary of Private Ross Taylor, a British prisoner of war whose daily jottings never exceeded 140 characters, is to be broadcast on Twitter...His meticulous entries in the leather AA drivers' journal, a gift from his girlfriend Florence,
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A long time ago I used to have really poor health. I didn’t have enough calcium in my body among many other vitamins. I was tired all the time and I couldn’t do much in a day. I used to sleep a lot and
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Blogging may help teens suffering from social anxiety, by improving their self-esteem and helping them relate better to their friends, researchers say. Research has shown that writing a personal diary and other forms of expressive writing are a great
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