In his long career at The New Yorker, he specialized in writing about this and other threats to people’s health, including chlorofluorocarbons.
Category: Writing and Writers
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What Alex Jones, Woody Allen and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Share
Skyhorse Publishing has built a reputation for taking on authors that other houses avoid. And its founder has helped Kennedy mount a bid for president.
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Striking Writers and Studios Agree to Restart Negotiations
The two sides in the Hollywood stalemate will formally meet on Friday, after an informal sidebar session last week.
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Emmy Awards Are Pushed to January Because of Hollywood Strikes
It is the first time the show will be moved out of its planned time slot since after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
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Read Your Way Through Appalachia
Barbara Kingsolver, whose Pulitzer-winning “Demon Copperhead” offered a variegated portrait of the region, guides readers through a literary landscape “as bracing and complex as a tumbling mountain creek.”
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A New Frontier for Travel Scammers: A.I.-Generated Guidebooks
Shoddy guidebooks are flooding Amazon. Their authors claim to be renowned travel writers, but are they A.I. inventions? And how big is the problem?
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Hollywood Writers and Studios to Restart Talks After Standoff
A strike by writers and actors has caused nearly a complete production shutdown of scripted entertainment.
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Julian Barry, Who Made Lenny Bruce Into ‘Lenny,’ Dies at 92
Mr. Barry’s scripts for a hit Broadway play and later a Hollywood movie about that rule-breaking comic helped give Mr. Bruce a lasting place in pop culture lore.
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Bo Goldman, Oscar-Winning Screenwriter, Dies at 90
He was a struggling writer when he won an Academy Award for “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.” He won another for “Melvin and Howard.”