Playwright Christopher Durang, a Tony winner for ‘Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike,’...
NEW YORK (AP) — Playwright Christopher Durang, a master of satire and black comedy who won a Tony Award for “Vanya and Sonia and...
Robin Walter’s ‘Little Mercy’ receives poetry academy’s First Book Award
NEW YORK (AP) — Robin Walter’s “Little Mercy,” a debut collection of verse that celebrates the natural world, has won the 2024 Academy of...
With some laughs, some stories, some tears, Don Winslow begins what he calls his...
NEW YORK (AP) — Don Winslow, embarking on what he calls his final book tour, had a feeling he might not keep it together“It’s...
Pepe Aguilar is putting Mexican culture at the front and center with ‘Jaripeo: Hasta...
ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) — Pepe Aguilar feels like a superhero when he puts on his charro suit. But unlike Superman, Aguilar’s power isn’t supernatural...
Claire Jiménez’s ‘What Happened to Ruthy Ramirez’ wins the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction
NEW YORK (AP) — Claire Jiménez’s “What Happened to Ruthy Ramirez,” a hard-hitting and comic novel set in New York City about a Puerto...
Poet-critic Hanif Abdurraqib among 8 winners of $175,000 Windham-Campbell Prizes.
NEW YORK (AP) — Poet-critic Hanif Abdurraqib, fiction writers Deirdre Madden and Kathryn Scanlan and playwright Christopher Chen are among this year's recipients of...
John Sinclair, a marijuana activist who was immortalized in a John Lennon song, dies...
ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) — John Sinclair, a poet, music producer and counterculture figure whose lengthy prison sentence after a series of small-time pot...
‘SCTV’ star and comedian Joe Flaherty has died at 82 after an illness, his...
TORONTO (AP) — Comedian Joe Flaherty, a founding member of the Canadian sketch series “SCTV,” has died. He was 82.His daughter Gudrun said Tuesday...
This mob-era casino is closing on the Las Vegas Strip. Here’s some big moments...
LAS VEGAS (AP) — From its lavish opening in 1957 on a Las Vegas Boulevard surrounded by wide-open desert, to its sleepier years amid...
Wallace Peeples, activist-influencer otherwise known as Wallo267, has memoir out in September
NEW YORK (AP) — Wallace Peeples has lived many lives — activist, speechmaker, podcaster, social media influencer — since serving 20 years in prison....