If you already know who Terence McKenna was, no selling is necessary. If you don't, this is the place to start. Though if you're reading Boing Boing, chances are you already do. Twenty-five years ...

It was like doing another college degree, but you’re majoring in Judy Blume,” Mark Oppenheimer (here in his Connecticut home) says of his extensive research.Credit...Jillian Freyer for The New York ...

Richard Melzer will autograph copies of “Don Perkins: A Champion’s Life” from noon-3 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 12 at Barnes & Noble at the Coronado Shopping Center, 6600 Menaul Blvd. NE. If you were living ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This month, dive into a history of one of Broadway's best known musicals, devour a biography of a monarch who changed the world ...

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When the critic Janet Malcolm set aside a biography of Sylvia Plath and began reading a memoir about the author instead, she felt as if she “had been freed from prison.” The writing in the biography, ...