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A brief update from Massachusetts.
Not named for President Andrew Jackson.
Kissena Blvd. and Sanford Ave. is a rare spot in Flushing relatively untouched by change.
What’s wrong with having a little party?
From Buckley’s Tavern to Roll n Roaster and more.
Kurt Vonnegut's The Sirens of Titan may be easier to understand now than it was when it was published in 1959.
Down one of New York City's roads.
Vonnegut warns about mechanization depriving people of the meaning found in a good job.
A look at several neighborhoods in the borough reveal beautiful buildings by top-name architects.
The world from a keyhole perspective.
Perusing review copies of autumn books.
Happy warriors, gambling, Shohei and traffic-jammers. What year is it (#584)?
New book by Kaye Savage Browning to “keep people’s eyes happy.”
The Quiet American (1955) is a murder mystery based on a love triangle.and the first anti-Vietnam war novel.
A Review of Toothpull of St Dunstan by Kevin Davey.
A 1998 Index Magazine interview with fashion designer Isaac Mizrahi vs. a 2025 Interview Magazine interview with novelist Olivia Kan-Sperling.
Media mogul Maggie McCleary and her influencer daughter, Bellee, find themselves at loggerheads over comments Bellee made about her road to fame and fortune.
American know-how gone berserk.
Is this wise?
City horticulture cross-pollinates with history.
Visiting Bodyworlds and the Mütter Museum.
"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.
The late author talks about short fiction, his disinterest in writing, and his distrust of computers.
The author talks about his novel The Ground Beneath Her Feet.