E.E. Cummings

Harry Crews dies at 76; Southern writer with darkly comic vision

2012-04-01 00:00:00

Harry Crews, a rough-hewn Southerner who drew a keen following with novels that describe a Hieronymus Bosch landscape of grotesques — characters who are tossed into rattlesnake pits, walk on their hands, croon lullabies to a skull and literally...

Rushworth M. Kidder dies at 67; ethics expert

2012-03-13 00:00:00

Rushworth M. Kidder, a former Christian Science Monitor columnist who taught and wrote books about ethics, died March 5 of natural causes in Naples, Fla. He was 67. His death was announced by the Institute for Global Ethics, the Rockport, Maine-based...

Festival of Books: American poets make their debut on forever stamps

2012-04-21 21:36:10

Book review: 'Tabloid City' by Pete Hamill

2011-05-08 00:00:00

Tabloid City A Novel Pete Hamill Little, Brown: 278 pp., $26.99 There's murder and mayhem in Pete Hamill's latest novel, "Tabloid City," but the real victim in his book is the print journalism that Hamill knows and loves so well. This ticking time...

The clarinet stories of jazz player Ben Goldberg

2011-03-15 21:33:02

Paul Coates and Matt Weinstock, Dec. 10, 1960

2010-12-10 16:32:47

Gifts: On Valentine's Day have a little heart

2011-02-08 16:32:16

When poetry goes bad, on purpose

2009-10-28 16:33:43

'Brothers & Sisters': The wedding that wasn't

2009-12-07 16:34:15

Forgotten treasures of the last century, from 25 writers

2009-12-22 16:33:29

Planted in the San Joaquin

2010-01-17 00:00:00

In October 2002, a trim, white-haired poet named Don Thompson sat down in a farmhouse in the San Joaquin Valley and wrote a poem called "Turning Sixty." In it, he compared his birthday to the climb of "a few degrees on the thermometer" that "add up to the...

A free story from Nathanael West

2010-06-04 16:33:55

It's easy to rack up genres in attempting to describe this Berkeley-based ensemble. Chamber-gypsy-jazz-folk?

2012-09-14 10:45:42