DragonKing Dark: The death of Ernest Hemingway

DragonKing Dark: The death of Ernest Hemingway

Karl Stern’s darkest moments in pop culture series continues. Ernest Hemingway literally changed the entire genre of popular literature. Preceded by the flowery and verbose language of the previous era, Hemingway wrote in a more straightforward style, often holding back and allowing silence

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DragonKing Dark: The Payne Stewart plane crash

DragonKing Dark: The Payne Stewart plane crash

Karl Stern’s path down the darkest 100 moments in pop culture continues. In 1999, television viewers tuned into the story about an out of control jet plane flying across the country from Florida toward Canada. The unresponsive plane was tailed by military jets

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DragonKing Dark: The 7th Heaven controversy

DragonKing Dark: The 7th Heaven controversy

Karl Stern’s Dark 100 lands on the strange stories around an actor on the popular TV show. I continue with my Dark 100 series on the 100 darkest moments in pop culture history with a stop at 7th Heaven — a sappy, moralistic

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