A new biography of Sam Shepard, an EGOT-level talent as a playwright and performer, traces the career he forged after leaving ...

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John Lennon and Bob Dylan were contemporaries and competitors. The folk singer was an icon to the former Beatle, but his inspiration came with some bitchiness.

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Patti Smith, the celebrated rock poet who won a National Book Award for 'Just Kids,' revisits her hard-scrabble childhood, success and the loss of her husband, Fred Sonic Smith, in 'Bread of Angels.' ...

This article appears in the December 2025 print edition with the headline “Patti Smith’s Lifetime of Reinvention.” ...

Bernard F. Conners, an Albany-area businessman and novelist, dies at 99 after a careers in pro football, the FBI, writing, ...

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The Humphrey School of Public Affairs is pleased to welcome Sam Freedman, award-winning journalist and retired professor from ...

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