“I don’t know how to write,” Mary Flannery O’Connor once said. “But I can draw.” She had just become a cartoonist for her high school newspaper,...
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THE GHOSTS OF ROME, by Joseph O’Connor The Irish novelist Joseph O’Connor is best known for “Star of the Sea” (2002) and its loose sequel, “Redemption...
On Monday, Jenkins was onstage at the festival, and the audience was on its feet. He is one of the producers on “Sorry, Baby,” a sometimes...
Feb. 14, 1981 Funky 4 + 1 Invited by the host and “Rapture” hitmaker Debbie Harry of Blondie, the Funky 4 + 1 became the first...
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