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Saying goodbye to Athena, the best cat ever.
Deadeye Dick, and the crime at its center, reach out to past and future.
Bronx places and landmarks that point toward New England.
You’re in an elevator. Why?
Kurt Vonnegut's Jailbird (1979) is alarmingly relevant today.
The Gift of Not Belonging by Rami Kaminski is the black sheep bible.
I have mixed feelings about all my old schools and workplaces: they shaped me, and I made friends I have to this day, but in many ways they were disappointing.
I think I might have eaten too much of your chocolate bar.
In praise of Robert Frost and Walt Whitman.
Jay McInerney’s new novel is slight. Yawn. What year is it (#624)?
Our family’s first dog, a pompous, whip-smart Pomeranian.
In America, the redhead isn’t mocked but mythologized.
Just another guy in a uniform.
Marilyn Chin chops up all the traditions in Rhapsody in Plain Yellow.
It sure ain’t what it used to be.
Kurt Vonnegut's eighth novel, Slapstick, is a successful transition into the fantasy genre.
Both cisgender heterosexuals, as far as I know. But opposite men.
Breakfast of Champions, Kurt Vonnegut's follow up to Slaughterhouse-Five, makes a mark of its own.
Regan Penaluna joins a small group of philosophers who’ve taken their knowledge to the masses in recent decades.
My father was savvy in ways I wasn’t.
Culture watching. Mayhem rules on trendy Soho streets.
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.