Sometimes, journalists are heroes onscreen. Other times, they can’t help but fall in love.
Category: Writing and Writers
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Steve Hayden, Writer Behind Apple’s ’1984’ Commercial, Dies at 78
The ad for the Macintosh computer — which ran just once, during the Super Bowl — is considered one of the most memorable commercials ever made.
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A Novelist Asks: Am I Bob Dylan’s Son?
In his autobiographical novel, Sam Sussman grows up wondering if his affinity for the great singer-songwriter goes beyond a striking resemblance.
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Exploring Daphne du Maurier’s Cornwall
The county in southern England was where the British writer, known for her psychological mysteries and romantic novels, found herself ‘as a writer and as a person.’
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Following the Sounds of Arabic to Rediscover Paris
A language student’s guide to the French capital highlights the culinary, literary and musical influences that quietly shape everyday life.
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How Harry Potter Fans Are Driving the Romantasy Trend
Romantasy is propping up the fiction market. Thanks to a generation that grew up reading about a boy wizard.
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This Wedding Singer Has Co-Written a Novel, and the Songs That Go With It
Along with his side gig, Jens Lekman has put out five albums. Now he’s collaborated with David Levithan on the novel “Songs for Other People’s Weddings.”
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A Moody, Gothic Writer’s Home on Long Island
Uninterested in beachy blue and white, the designers behind Roman and Williams filled a traditional Hamptons house with rich wood and saturated color.
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Michael Lydon, Writer Who Rocked With the 1960s, Dies at 82
A founding editor of Rolling Stone and a seasoned music journalist, he spent time with the Beatles and toured with the Grateful Dead and the Rolling Stones.
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Sallie Bingham, Author at the Center of a Newspaper Drama, Dies at 88
A novelist and memoirist, she famously clashed with a brother, leading to the fall of a Kentucky publishing dynasty that her paternal grandfather established in 1918.
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In Wisconsin, Cheese and Packers Stories Help Northern Sky Theater Thrive
Northern Sky Theater in Door County programs original musicals steeped in local history, archetypes and customs.