On June 15, 1942, days after receiving a diary for her 13th birthday, Anne Frank wrote that a classmate she had only recently met “is now my best friend.” ...

Ezra Furman has announced their 10th album, Goodbye Small Head, which will be out May 16 via Bella Union. The title is lifted from Sleater-Kinney’s “Get Up” and Furman says it “reflects a band ...

Ezra Furman has announced a new album, Goodbye Small Head, and shared its first single, “Grand Mal.” She’s also announced ...

I never wanted to be a writer. I was an information designer. Becoming a columnist, like so many things in my career, was a bit of a fluke.

He waved goodbye to them from his plane as they stood on the rooftop viewing area. His girlfriend was holding a copy of Peter, Paul, and Mary’s latest album as a parting gift from him. It had the song ...

Growing into myself as a writer — and doing it in front of and for all of you — has been one of the great honors of my life.

Poetry celebrates its 36th anniversary tonight, marking 1,880 consecutive weeks of poetry readings in downtown Hot Springs, ...

Five years ago, the world mourned a tragic loss with the deaths of Lakers legend, Kobe Bryant, his daughter Gianna, and seven other individuals when their helicopter crashed in Calabasas. Reflecting ...

Oliver writes that he believed his 2022 book, “Last Goodbye,” was his last, but then he got the writing itch and popped out “ ...

After losing their son to suicide, Monticello's Anita and Johnny Boone launched a foundation in Jamie's name, hoping to ...

Here’s a toast to Marianne Faithfull, a true rock & roll legend. Nobody was ever better at being an old rock star, except maybe Leonard Cohen. Yet the difference is that Cohen didn’t release his debut ...

By CAROLYN BROWN Staff Writer Peter Gizzi, professor of poetry at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, recently won the 2024 T.S. Eliot Prize for Poetry, one of the world’s most prestigious poetry ...