How Sci-Fi Writers Isaac Asimov & Robert Heinlein Contributed to the Conflict Effort Throughout World Conflict II

Robert Hein­lein, Isaac Asi­mov and L. Sprague De Camp on the Navy Yard in 1944 Robert Hein­lein was born in 1907, which put him on the mature aspect by the point of the Unit­ed States’ entry into World Conflict II. Isaac Asi­mov, his youthful col­league in sci­ence fic­tion, was born in 1920 (or there­abouts), and…

Patti Smith Reads Her Remaining Letter to Robert Mapplethorpe, Calling Him “the Most Stunning Work of All”

When you go to listen to Pat­ti Smith in con­cert, you count on her to sing “Beneath the South­ern Cross,” “As a result of the Night time,” and virtually cer­tain­ly “Peo­ple Have the Pow­er,” the hit sin­gle from Dream of Life. Like her 1975 debut Hors­es, that album had a cov­er pho­to by Robert Map­plethor­pe, whom Smith describes as…