A former home of poet Robert Frost has been vandalized, with intruders destroying dozens of items and setting fire to furniture … More

After 16 books and at the age of 95, Studs Terkel finally has written a memoir. At least his publisher calls Touch and Go a memoir. … More

On October 10, Little, Brown published Blonde Faith, Walter Mosley’s 10th and possibly final novel to feature Los Angeles investigator Easy Rawlins. Did you once say that the Easy Rawlins series would run five or perhaps seven books? I messed around with that—sometimes I said nine. What changed? There were more books to write—there was […]

This week anthropolgists, international photographers, the morbidly obese, a professional medium, Ronald Reagan’s right-hand man, a Men’s Health cover model, Kim Jong-Il and the youth of America school us on the human condition: eating, dying, fornicating, learning, partying, paying, marrying, deceiving, waging war and ogling naked people.
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Two of the last literary lions to emerge from World War II, Kurt Vonnegut and Norman Mailer, died this year, both at age 84. …  More

Laura Ingalls Wilder was 66 when the first volume in her beloved Little House series, Little House in the Big Woods, was published. …  More

Eat, Pray, Love is the hit of the holiday season. But it’s not alone: Cheating at Canasta, The Septembers of Shiraz and A Free …  More