Books
The potency of possibility
Author Carter Wilson’s writing career started with one macabre question: “If three people are murdered in the exact same way, at the exact same...
Confronting the past
It’s difficult to imagine that Anthony Swofford, who once had sex with a girl in the same room as his dying brother and dined on greasy Waffle House food with a crack dealer and a couple of prostitutes, could become such a family man...
The truth about ‘On the Road’
In his latest book, Gerald Nicosia has unlocked the dynamic of Jack Kerouac and Neal Cassady, and not a moment too soon...
Pagediving
It was a great year for new books on music. I was able to get through a giant stack of them in the last...
Thompson’s last stand
In 2001, convicted murderer Lisl Auman was 13 months into a life sentence when she wrote a letter to the author of a book that had recently brought her some joy in prison...
