“I think my great handicap is my insistence on freedom,” Dawn Powell once wrote. “I require it. So I cannot make the suave adjustments to a successful writer’s life — right people, right hospitality, right gestures, because I want to be free.” Rudolph Wurlitzer, like many fine writers, could say the same. The screenwriter behind the landmark 1973 film Pat . . .
Press Secretary McClellan’s Iraq War policy announcements seemed like steaming piles of horseshit because they were.
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For the 100th anniversary of Theodore Roethke’s birth, NPR visited the poet’s childhood home in Saginaw.
Walking up Ocean Parkway has always felt a little like being in Miami north of South Beach on Collins. I figured the sensation would dissipate once I moved there. Three months later, though, despite all the red brick and Northeastern foliage, it still seems like I might stroll a couple blocks toward the park and stumble on the Fontainebleau. The . . .