Parker recorded interviews with 12 British men and women who ... Along with Truman Capote's (very different) In Cold Blood, ...

Formed in 2019, Free Spirits – led by pianist/composer Teri Parker – was originally conceived as a tribute to the talents of legendary jazz pianists Mary Lou Williams (1910-1981) and Geri Allen ...

Prone, alone, dry as a bone, scratching around for the sleep hormone, condemned to my own society— too much of me, too much ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Penny’s 19th installment in the beloved Gamache series is a particularly haunting and relevant mystery novel. Yael van der Wouden’s novel, shortlisted for this year’s Booker Prize, is about ...

Chlorophyll’ director Ivana Gloria on taking the punk route to promoting her surreal coming-of-age story: “I felt like a rock ...

5. The God of the Woods by Liz Moore (Riverhead Books: $30) Two worlds collide when a teenager vanishes from her Adirondacks summer camp. 7. All Fours by Miranda July (Riverhead Books: $29 ...

San Diego Mayor Todd Gloria signs an executive order that aims to boost city employment opportunities for military veterans on Nov. 4, 2024 in San Diego, Calif.

Gloria Estefan is a well-known Cuban-American ... Estefan has authored two children's books: The Magically Mysterious Adventures of Noelle the Bulldog (2005) and Noelle and the Treasure of Lost ...

Incumbent Todd Gloria says he’s making major progress on homelessness, the housing crisis and repairing San Diego’s crumbling infrastructure. And he says those problems can be solved if voters ...