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Ben Vida describes the thought process behind his recent compositions.

The Pulitzer-winning novelist on Tintin, Jorge Luis Borges and a lifetime of changing tastes

How a bar in Greenwich Village, NYC played two important parts in the creation of Frank McCourt's beloved novel "Angela's Ashes."

Aged 76, Tommy Makem's replacement in the Clancy Brothers, Louis Killen, began to live openly as a woman named Louisa Jo Killen. She died on this day, August 9, 2013, aged 79. I’ll fondly remember Louisa Jo, a person who could sing the dirtiest sea shanties in one life and had the courage to change sex in another.

“The other day I was shocked to discover that somehow I have amassed a rather robust collection of books about punk rock,” says the writer, whose novel “Trust,” now in paperback, won a 2023 Pulitzer Prize for fiction.

NB by J.C.: A Walk Through the Times Literary Supplement

The MTC's production of Beckett's Happy Days shows the unlikely poetry of the surreal situation, and its moving power to inspire hope.

“I get it: the method and the matter, although sometimes less of the matter than I might, lacking certain knowledges.”

The Longcut follows a scrapped novel about Seattle’s art scene.

Five easy steps to becoming well-read.