The author on writing stories with ‘emotional punch’ for children, walking in to a bomb during the Troubles, and his ...

A legend in his own right, he was just one of many famous outlaws of the American West ... possibly in the San Francisco earthquake of 1906. This was the story popularized by Cherokee author, John ...

Need a ranked list of travel destinations? Maybe a recipe for a popular dish, or even a résumé? Within five days, ChatGPT attracted over a million users—it could even pump out short stories in the ...

Introduced to millions as the kid in Dave Eggers’ 'A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius,' Toph re-emerges to reclaim his tragic family history and explain why his famous sibling is no longer a ...

Ever wonder what your favorite American author loved to eat? We've rounded up several of America's most famous literary ...

It seems that there’s a Randy Newman for all sorts of music listeners. Like acerbic/satirical/edgy/intelligent pop songs? He’s the guy who wrote tunes from the POV of a slave ship captain pitching an ...

They demanded nothing and remained steadfast by my side." You must have heard the story of your birth a thousand times by now, sweetheart. Your mother and I—home alone. Again, I wasn’t a poet ...

This week, novelist Jonathan Lethem joins Ben Davis to discuss the impact of art on his life and his body of work.

Their allure is similar to that of the holiday romances that flood the Hallmark Channel every year, notes author Tod Goldberg ...

But “An Evening with David Sedaris” on Nov. 14 turned out to be pretty down and dirty fun. Respected not just as an author, ...

I had never read anything by the famous English author. But why would that even matter? Jane Austen wrote all six of her novels just over 200 years ago in a time that seems distant and abstract to us ...

Screening on opening night at DOC NYC, the film builds around an interview from near the end of its subject's life to deliver a close study of a celebrated author who became a cultural pariah in her ...