It was Dusty Baker’s secret ritual after virtually every home game when he managed the Houston Astros, but one night, he was caught red-handed by Astros infielder Mauricio Dubon. Dubon, who was in his ...

Each year, the USA’s National Book Critics Circle presents awards for the finest books published in English in six categories: Fiction, Nonfiction, Biography, Autobiography, Poetry, and Criticism.

“Why her?” the journalist Mark Oppenheimer writes toward the end of his first biography, “Judy Blume: A Life.” “What is it about Judy and her work that won her so many millions of fans?” Partly talent ...

I have a confession: I am not a Judy Blume girlie. Sure, as a kid growing up in the 1990s, I enjoyed some of her books. I adored the chaotic mayhem of 1972’s “Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing” and 1980 ...

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Blake has over a decade of experience writing for the web, with a focus on mobile phones, where he covered the smartphone boom of the 2010s and the broader tech scene. When he's not in front of a ...

Alice Cooper will look back on his illustrious six-decade career in his upcoming autobiography, Devil on My Shoulder, which will be published on Oct. 8. The "Godfather of Shock Rock" will promote the ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

“I love to fall asleep with a book nearby,” says the “Autobiography of Cotton” author. “Dreaming and reading merge in beautiful, uncompromising ways.” Credit...Rebecca Clarke Supported by In an email ...

On Page 76 of the 1959 Hibbing, Minnesota, high school yearbook, a certain member of the senior class is quoted as vowing “to join ‘Little Richard’” after graduation. That didn’t happen. Once this ...

Over her nearly 40-year career, Mexican author Cristina Rivera Garza has written more than a half-dozen novels, as well as essays, short stories, histories, memoirs, poetry, a chamber opera, and the ...

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