On April 20 there’s a memorial for Christopher Hitchens at the Cooper Union in Manhattan. There’s a PEN tribute, also in Manhattan, on April 30. Here’s my own little envoi. The regular Diary ...

Meg Remy is releasing her latest U.S. Girls album, In A Poem Unlimited, next month, and the singles we’ve heard from it so far, “Velvet 4 Sale” and “Mad As Hell,” have been sharp-tongued ...

Take it from me, the Pearly Gates ain’t so pearly. It all happened very quickly. First I was choking on a piece of steak, then I was gasping for breath on the floor of the restaurant, then I was ...