[ad_1] Alison Lurie was a Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist who combined biting wit and boundless empathy to narrate the lives of women in search of self-awareness and personal growth while going about the business of daily living. In addition to having written 11 works of fiction, Lurie was an essayist andRead More →
[ad_1] There was an acid bravery and beauty in PJ O’Rourke’s early journalism and a glee in the ease with which it aroused anger. So far satirists – and Americans in particular – have tended to come from the left, nor has O’Rourke’s mentor Hunter S. Thompson, who campaigned longRead More →
[ad_1] Mr. Queen has finally started airing and he’s making the headlines for all kinds of reasons! On the bright side, the show recorded jaw-dropping ratings over the weekend of the premiere. On the other hand, it has landed in controversy for two reasons. For the uninitiated, Mr. Queen isRead More →
[ad_1] With the exception of “Near Death”, “City Hall” marks the first time Wiseman has toured in his home country since “Titicut Follies”, his debut. At the time, Wiseman was sadly teaching law at Boston University, having graduated from Yale in part to avoid conscription for the Korean War. HeRead More →
[ad_1] Legendary spy novelist David Cornwell, better known as John le Carré, has died, his agent said on Sunday. “With great sadness I have to announce the passing of one of the world’s greatest writers,†literary agent Jonny Geller said on Twitter. The author’s family said he died of pneumoniaRead More →
[ad_1] Alison Lurie, the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist whose satirical and cerebral love and college stories included the marital saga “The War Between the Tates” and the Americans Abroad comedy “Foreign Affairs,” died Thursday at the age of 94. Lurie, professor emeritus at Cornell University, has died of natural causes, accordingRead More →
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[ad_1] NEW YORK (AP) – Alison Lurie, the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist whose satirical and cerebral love and college stories have included the marital saga “The War Between the Tates” and the Americans Abroad comedy “Foreign Affairs â€, died Thursday at age 94. Lurie, professor emeritus at Cornell University, has diedRead More →
[ad_1] For Jane Smiley, horses are less of an interest than an obsession. Growing up in the suburbs of St. Louis, Missouri, she enviously watched the couriers on television (“Roy Rogers”, “The Lone Ranger”) and begged her mother to give her riding lessons. She had her first mare at 14Read More →
[ad_1] Mural by Kurt Vonnegut in Indianapolis, IN (Flickr / dlytle) Love, Kurt: Vonnegut’s love letters, 1941-1945 edited by Edith Vonnegut; Random house, 240 pages, $ 35 Most men in uniform never see death. But Private First Class Kurt Vonnegut of Indianapolis was captured in the Battle of the BulgeRead More →