Mike Lupica, blue-chip writer
If you watch "The Sports Reporters" each Sunday on ESPN, as I do religiously, you know how Mike Lupica looks just before he's about to deliver a contrarian opinion about...
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Poems of sin-eaters, souls and suffering
In the introduction to his impishly profound new collection of poems, Thomas Lynch recalls that when he finished writing the first handful, he "field-tested them at Joe's Star Lounge on...
Less than meets the eye
A friend of mine was fired from her first job as a TV newscaster. Her crime? She was, the news director told her with a straight face, "distractingly voluptuous." He'd...
Less than meets the eye
A friend of mine was fired from her first job as a TV newscaster. Her crime? She was, the news director told her with a straight face, "distractingly voluptuous." He'd...
Fur sure: Northwestern alum compiles fetching essays by dog owners
Hero. Ishmael. Ramsey. Sophie. Bonnie. Those are, in order of appearance, the names of thedogs — all mutts — with whom I have shared my life from the time I...
Fur sure: Northwestern alum compiles fetching essays by dog owners
Hero. Ishmael. Ramsey. Sophie. Bonnie. Those are, in order of appearance, the names of thedogs — all mutts — with whom I have shared my life from the time I...
‘Rescue Me’ tops all other 9/11-themed art
See those hands of yours? Good. Now clap 'em over the ears of any kid within a 2-mile radius of the TV if an installment of "Rescue Me" happens to...
Bam! Pow! Crunch! Michael Chabon builds a new superhero
Repeat after me: Sklurp. Skreeech. Ska-runch. There. Feels good, doesn't it? Some words are just plain fun to say. And those are the words, according to Michael Chabon, that belong...
Bam! Pow! Crunch! Michael Chabon builds a new superhero
Repeat after me: Sklurp. Skreeech. Ska-runch. There. Feels good, doesn't it? Some words are just plain fun to say. And those are the words, according to Michael Chabon, that belong...
How flower books grow on you
Two books — one old, one new — changed my mind about flowers. Before reading them, my attitude toward flowers could perhaps best be described as "indifferent." I did not...