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Traffic bridges of New York known only to residents, never shown on maps.
A proposed satellite would take a closer look at black holes.
Barbara Byar's In the Desert is a gritty, engrossing, and hard-to-define novel.
1899-1939—Worcester, Massachusetts and Cambridge, Massachusetts: Martin and Eleanor’s sons: Edward, Paul and Freddy.
Flushing's history of churches and commercial plant nurseries.
1879, Worcester, Massachusetts: Simon Stapleton meets Louise.
Passage for the Dutch and all that remains of so much gone.
Pronounced "Eli" as in Manning.
An otherworldly landscape, interrupted by BGE hole-diggers.
Marvels of design hiding in plain sight around the city.
F. Scott Fitzgerald, J.D. Salinger, John Dos Passos, and Sinclair Lewis were “not very good” writers.
Man, it’s hard. What year is it (#614)?
A local record store discusses how to improve sales.
Emotions make us human.
The two intellectual giants drew the same conclusions for entirely different reasons.
Grief works in mysterious and non-linear ways.
Two new books discern lessons from world wars and their leaders.
I wasn’t going to lose half of everything in a divorce.
1873, Liverpool, England (Roger, Simon and Henry Stapleton).
Executive function, bottom-up processing, and a craggy historical novelist.
Part three (Harvey goes to college)
The late author talks about his time working in the LAPD, collecting anecdotes on the job, and more in this interview with Open Road Media.
The author talks about his work, Ernest Hemingway, and America in this January 9, 2003 interview.
"Marry rich. And read."
The author of A Streetcar Named Desire and many more talks about his life and career in this interview aired on July 22, 1979.
The author talks to Buckley for an hour in this episode aired on February 1, 1977.
A compilation of appearances by writers on the talk show.
The actor and director talks about his new memoir The Friday Afternoon Club on CBS Sunday Morning.
The author on his retrospective anthology The Time of Our Time.
The prolific author talks to Brace Belden and Liz Franczak about grief, compounds, our horrid present, and helping other people.