Harvey Pekar, RIP
Comic author, jazz critic and all-around Amerian treasure Harvey Pekar passed away earlier today at the age of 70. A […]
Finally It Can Be Revealed : The King Of The Beats Was A Giant Nerd
Jack Kerouac’s brief stint as a running back for Columbia University and early crack at sportswriting for the school’s Daily […]
Hub Fans, Everyone Else Bid Overgrown Kid Adieu: John Updike, RIP
So…I’ve never really liked much of John Updike’s writing. I haven’t read the better Rabbit Angstrom books — Rabbit Run, […]
Studs Terkel, RIP
I remember watching “Eight Men Out” with my father when I was a kid, before I picked up what is […]
David Foster Wallace, RIP
I graduated from Pomona College one year before David Foster Wallace began teaching there. His professorship, the Roy Disney Writing […]
Escalator of Life, Going Down
You can count this one as Phillies-related. Much as I might like to pretend I listened to the Stick Men […]
Norman Mailer, Dead At 84
Of Pulitizer Winner and cultural icon Norman Mailer, the LA Times’ Elaine Woo writes, “as critic Alfred Kazin once noted, […]