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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.
King who?
Slaughterhouse-Five caught the spirit of an age ready for anti-war stories.
Some people love Washington, D.C. No idea why. What year is it (#622)?
Unlike most colonial houses, the Bowne House looks the same as it did in 1661.
Mother Night is one of Kurt Vonnegut's most underrated later novels.
Enough with noisy book fetishists.
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.
By the glowing hands of Trump!
Kurt Vonnegut’s God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater is effective, powerful, and important.
Invented religion, a science-fictional doomsday device, cold war paranoia, empathic humanism, and coal-black despair.
An interview with author Bruce Goldfarb.
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.