Carson McCullers

Audiobooks are going Hollywood

2012-03-14 00:00:00

When it came to reading a book out loud, Dustin Hoffman was a bit rusty. The last time he had done something similar was in New York City in the late 1960s, right after filming "The Graduate." A local radio station had recruited 30 or so people, including...

The new talkies: Audible is ready for its Hollywood close-up

2011-09-29 21:33:02

Roberts Blossom dies at 87; character played neighbor in 'Home Alone'

2011-07-14 00:00:00

Roberts Blossom, a veteran character actor who played the old, white-bearded next-door neighbor who befriends young Macaulay Culkin in the hit movie "Home Alone," has died. He was 87. Blossom died Friday of natural causes at a nursing home in Santa...

The birth of a Twitter trend: #replacebooktitleswithbacon

2011-09-01 16:34:52

Nonfiction film: 'Hey, Boo' spotlights the 'To Kill a Mockingbird' sensation

2011-05-08 00:00:00

Harper Lee was working as an airline reservations agent in New York City, struggling to write a novel tentatively titled "Atticus," when a close friend gave her enough money to take time off and finish her book. Published in 1960 with an initial print run...

J.D. Salinger dies at 91; reclusive author of 'The Catcher in the Rye'

2010-01-29 00:00:00

After "The Catcher in the Rye" exploded onto the literary scene in 1951, author J.D. Salinger had what every writer yearns for -- money, fame and critical acclaim. "Catcher" became a touchstone for the teenage culture just emerging in post-World War II...

Saturday's Highlights: 'The Inbetweeners' on BBC America

2011-06-17 21:37:15

Sheldon Epps: Play it again

2010-02-26 16:25:00

The Pasadena Playhouse has had more close calls than Pearl White, more farewells (and miraculous recoveries) than Sarah Bernhardt. And here we go again. The theater, which began 93 years ago as a troupe of actors in the Crown City, switched off its stage...

Monster Mash: Eva Longoria Parker in Washington; Rose Art Museum drama; Damien Hirst paintings

2009-10-14 16:32:34

Speak, memory

2009-07-26 00:00:00

In the early stages of writing my memoir "Slow Motion," I packed my bags and prepared to spend a month at Yaddo, an artists' community in Saratoga Springs, N.Y. I had never been to Yaddo before and was feeling intimidated. James Baldwin, Truman Capote and...

Discoveries

2008-06-15 00:00:00

Mr. Fooster Traveling on a Whim A Visual Novel Tom Corwin, illustrated by Craig Frazier Flying Dolphin Press: 102 pp., $14.95 Mr. Fooster walks and lets his mind wander. He ponders certain questions, like why mandarin oranges come in perfect...

'A Jury of Her Peers' by Elaine Showalter

2009-02-15 00:00:00

A Jury of Her Peers American Women Writers From Anne Bradstreet to Annie Proulx Elaine Showalter Alfred A. Knopf: 608 pp., $30 The title of this, the "first literary history of American women writers ever written," explains Elaine Showalter, comes...

Kristen Sieh is Carson McCullers and Julian Fleisher is George Davis in the new NYC-bound musical "February House," now playing at Long Wharf Theatre's Stage II.

2012-02-23 11:37:08

. Brando plays Major Penderton, a tortured homosexual who clings to a stultifying image of himself as a commander of men. Taylor plays Penderton's wife, Leonora, a social butterfly and a featherbrain.

2010-05-19 14:23:08

courtesy Lizzie Skurnick

2009-12-11 12:03:02