Charles Baxter’s new novel, “Blood Test,” is billed as a comedy, and it is a comedy mostly in that it is not a tragedy. Is it funny? Yes, but darkly ...
Paul Engle noted that “poetry is ordinary language raised to the nth power.” As if by magic, poetry books capture feelings that are often elusive and put into words our deepest pain and ...
He published free verse and prose poetry under his own name and used the ... On Facebook he was funny, punny, kind and infuriating – yet charmingly so. It was as if he couldn’t help saying ...
Denise Truscello/Getty; Penguin Random House Maria Shriver’s first foray into poetry is about as personal as it gets. On Saturday, Oct. 19, the journalist, 68, announced in her newsletter ...