Earth is overheating. The polar ice caps are melting. In 50 years, coastal towns will be underwater, yet governments continue to twiddle their thumbs. It’s not the most obvious starting point for a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Norm Crosby, the comedian whose fractured English won him fame as “Mr. Malaprop,” died Saturday at age 93. He died of heart ...

Earlier this week Malaprop’s Bookstore/Cafe in Asheville, N.C., pulled off its most ambitious middle-grade preorder promotion yet, and gave a free chapbook (which it helped design) of Alan Gratz’s ...

Stock characters, based on a nearly universally understood stereotypical personalities, actions or manner of speech, can suddenly emerge in the most unlikely of places and being too well known for any ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Patricia Hodge as arch word-mangler Mrs Malaprop - Ellie Kurttz Littler’s craftily edited rejig yields abundant comic touches, and ...

So, can you give us a bit of background on this place? What's it all about?When Malaprop's opened 32 years ago, the now-bustling downtown Asheville was all empty storefronts and derelict buildings, ...

To commemorate the 30th anniversary of Malaprop’s Bookstore in Asheville, N.C., co-owner (with Emoke B'Racz) Linda Barrett Knopp and her husband Brian Lee Knopp enlisted 10 western North Carolina ...

Writers love words just like chefs love food. We spend hours tinkering with verbs, nouns and adjectives within all types of techniques and combinations to keep the eyes of our readers glued to the ...