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Rock Star Medicine
Doctor Taylor Burkholder at a music festival in California last summer. As an emergency medical doctor at USC, he said he loves working festivals because of the fast pace and interesting cases. The perks aren’t bad either.
Dude Invites Philly To Watch Him Eat a Chicken. Why?
Alexander Tominsky said that eating a chicken every day was an act of courage in homage to a city known for suffering, and should be …
Their cats took their Vitamix hostage. Three weeks later, the standoff continues.
Jessica and Nikii Gerson-Neeves have tried everything to get their three cats to leave that Vitamix box alone. This story was the top-read story in …
Spider-Man Changed My Life
I’m a 48-year-old English professor, and the 23-year-old who plays Spider-Man changed my life.
Q&A: Leaping over the ‘author wall’ with Wally Lamb
Wally Lamb, author of books such as I Know This Much Is True, She’s Come Undone, and The Hour I First Believed
Q&A with Ann Patchett: A sneaky riptide of wild
Ann Patchett’s writing is all charm and grace and soothing. Here we are at a party. We’re celebrating a new birth. Everyone is hanging out …
Louise Erdrich brings ‘LaRose’ to the Free Library
Louise Erdrich’s writing speaks softly and carries a big stick. She doesn’t shy away from challenging issues – death, rape, murder. But her characters and their story lines are so layered and complex the darkness draws readers into her suspenseful dilemmas.
Erik Larson on the search for new things to write about
When author Erik Larson started research for his latest book, Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania, about the 1915 sinking of the luxury ocean liner, he wasn’t expecting many surprises. As with the Titanic, everyone knows the ending: Almost 1,200 passengers died when a German submarine torpedoed the ship off the coast of Ireland.