Oct. 20—HAMLET — Growing up in Hamlet, Jerry Pait had seven uncles who fought in WW2. Like many veterans at the time, they never talked much about the war. After 30 years of submarine service in the ...

The publication date Patti Smith chose for her latest memoir, Bread of Angels, is not just happenstance: Nov. 4 is the day her husband Fred "Sonic" Smith died (in 1994), and the birthday of her ...

STOCKHOLM (AP) — French author Annie Ernaux won this year’s Nobel Prize in literature Thursday for blending fiction and autobiography in books that fearlessly mine her experiences as a working-class ...

It's high time that the stoic Capt. Benjamin Sisko was given his moment in the "Star Trek" limelight after the character's classic run on "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine." Now the character brought to ...

Janet Malcolm once emailed to tell me she found an introduction I had written for my book on writers’ deaths, which included my own thoughts on a childhood illness, to be “surprising” but “powerful.” ...

There seems to be a critical re-evaluation of Phil Collins' contribution to modern Pop and Rock music underway. His career, which has spanned more than four decades, has encompassed both the highs and ...

Novelist Ann Patchett energetically resists all efforts to identify autobiographical elements in her fiction, but she has never been averse to personal writing in general: In fact, as she explains in ...

Hiroshi Fujiwara has been immersed in the streetwear industry for the better half of two decades, from emerging as one of Japan’s leading hip-hop DJs to pioneering Nike’s “HTM” line. What he’s best ...