At 83, Anne Tyler Has a New Novel. She’d Rather Talk About Anything Else.
While many of her contemporaries are playing canasta, she’s releasing her 25th book. There’s no mystery to it, Tyler says: ...
In ‘Festen,’ a Nightmare Birthday Becomes an Opera
The composer who put Anna Nicole Smith’s life onstage has a new piece: an adaptation of a cult movie about child abuse.
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An Arachnophobe Pays Homage to the Spider
They’re venomous cannibals, hiding in our homes. With something like fifteen quadrillion spiders around, we can’t escape them ...
Tom Robbins, ‘Even Cowgirls Get the Blues’ author who had ‘crazy wisdom,’ dies at 92
NEW YORK — Tom Robbins, the novelist and prankster-philosopher who charmed and addled millions of readers with such screwball ...