The good news about Let’s Explore Diabetes With Owls, the latest from David Sedaris, is that it’s not a collection of modern comic fables about talking animals. (Readers...
Carrie Hamilton, the first of the three daughters Carol Burnett had during her marriage to Carol Burnett Show producer Joe Hamilton, died of cancer in 2002, at age 38. Carrie...
In a literary culture dominated by good careerists who graduated from the same cluster of highly rated MFA programs, it’s easy to see something cherishable in a gifted...
Stephen Dobyns’ sprawling, sardonic horror novel The Burn Palace, set in a quiet little Rhode Island town called Brewster, opens with a grabber of a scene in a maternity...
What do Hall & Oates, Terence Trent D’Arby, and George Michael have in common? Aside from the fact that they’re carbon-based life forms, maybe nothing, except this:...
The cover of The Dude And The Zen Master shows a photograph of the authors playfully pressing their foreheads together, suggesting that though they have something deep and...
In his book about the history of Marvel Comics, Sean Howe notes that the practice of writing comic-book dialogue in capital letters, with exclamation points at the end of every...
