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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Parker Boyd is a native of the New Orleans metropolitan area. He graduated from Loyola University New Orleans with a bachelor's degree in Mass Communications with a concentration in journalism.

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 ...

A novel within a novel fueled her hit thriller ... from cultures around the globe can are celebrated in popular books for young readers. Test your knowledge of them with this short quiz.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The latest from the chronicler of urban grit known for “Lush Life” and “Clockers” — as well as writing on “The Wire” TV series — is set in 2008 in East Harlem, where a five-story ...

"I will never forget the love and support," Kelsey Parker wrote about Payne's help for her family after her husband's 2022 death Becca Longmire is a digital news writer-reporter at PEOPLE.

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