Parker (Purple and Black) opens this darkly comic novella with a grandiose proclamation from its flawed narrator. Saloninus claims to have mastered the art of turning base metal into gold and ...

The TV series Spenser: For Hire is adding to the fame of Parker's Boston private eye, star of 12 book thrillers. The witty, tough, idealistic Spenser recounts his latest exploits in this 13th tale ...

You can’t judge a book by its cover, but sometimes you can judge a writer’s standing by it. My 1990s-era paperback edition of “The Portable Dorothy Parker” shows the poet, critic, playwright and ...

By Dwight Garner Three new books make the case for music as medicine ... a crucial polemical voice of the 20th century. Dorothy Parker worked on the script for “A Star Is Born,” but the ...

By Wilson Wong In his latest book, the Rolling Stone writer David ... or those politics. A novel within a novel fueled her hit thriller, “The Plot.” Keeping the stories straight was even ...

Actor Lorne Greene in a production of "1984," from the book by George Orwell, on the CBS anthology ... [+] series Studio One, circa 1953. For decades, writers have conjured nightmare worlds to ...

The most anticipated of the new books on Parker is Stanley ... who "quoted" other songs within their performances, Parker may have been one of the first to articulate the future of this practice ...

In the book, a fictionalized version of Parker arrives mere hours after her mother Elaine has ended her life. Fawn takes up her mother’s place in a soap-making feminist commune situated in an ...

Lila Pereira, a successful media executive, rises to the top of her career but has to reckon with her youngest daughter, Grace, resenting her for not being a PTA mom. Grace also dredges up the ...

And they were successful in building out leadership talent from within. In 1990 ... One of the exciting developments on the ...

books and food and interesting experiences, and they're warm in the winter and cool in summer. But they should pine for things, they should want things." Here's everything Sarah Jessica Parker and ...

indicating the bloodshed about to take place within the book. Also, the lack of eyes and red skull show the many façades of ...