Arts Dec 31 Amanda Gorman writes end-of-year poem, ‘New Day’s Lyric’ The 23-year-old poet, whose reading of her own “The Hill We Climb” at President Joe Biden's inauguration made her an international sensation, posted a new work and accompanying video Wednesday on Instagram to mark the end of 2021.
Arts Dec 18 Hollywood bard, muse and reveler Eve Babitz dies at 78 One of Hollywood’s greatest bards, Eve Babitz, has died at age 78. With love and candor, Babitz chronicled the excess of her native world in the 1960s and 1970s and became a cult figure to generations of readers.
Arts Nov 18 ‘Hell of a Book’ wins National Book Award for fiction The winner of this year's National Book Award for fiction is Jason Mott's "Hell of a Book." It's a surreal meta-narrative about an author's book and his haunted past and present. The winner for nonfiction is Tiya Miles' "All That…
Arts Oct 22 Halyna Hutchins remembered as gifted cinematographer The cinematographer who was fatally shot with a prop gun by Alec Baldwin on a movie set grew up on a Soviet military base in the Arctic Circle and worked on documentary films in Europe before studying film in Los…
Arts Oct 14 Gary Paulsen, celebrated children’s author, dies at 82 Paulsen received the Newbery Honor prize for "Hatchet," "The Winter Room" and "Dogsong," a story about a young native Alaskan in search of a simpler past.
Arts Oct 13 Sally Rooney holds off on Hebrew translation of new novel Author Sally Rooney is holding off on allowing her current book to be translated into Hebrew, citing Israel’s “system of racial domination and segregation against Palestinians.”…
Arts Sep 17 Fiction longlist for National Book Awards includes Richard Powers, Lauren Groff Powers' “Bewilderment” is his first book since the Pulitzer winning “The Overstory.” Groff's “Matrix” is her third consecutive work to receive a National Book Award nomination, following “Fates and Furies” and the story collection “Florida.” Anthony Doerr's “Cloud Cuckoo Land”…
Arts Sep 13 George Wein, Newport Jazz Festival co-founder, dies at 95 A former jazz club owner and aspiring pianist, Wein launched the Newport Jazz Festival in 1954 with a lineup for the heavens — Billie Holliday and Dizzy Gillespie, Ella Fitzgerald and Lester Young — and kept going for more than…
Arts May 08 Lloyd Price, singer and early rock influence, dies at 88 Singer-songwriter Lloyd Price, an early rock ’n roll star and enduring maverick whose hits included such up-tempo favorites as “Lawdy Miss Clawdy,” “Personality” and the semi-forbidden “Stagger Lee,” has died. He was 88.
Arts Apr 22 Publisher pauses release of new Philip Roth biography The publisher of a new, bestselling biography about Philip Roth has temporarily halted the book's shipping and promotion as its author, Blake Bailey, faces multiple allegations of sexual harassment and abuse.