“Anything Is Possible.” But not everything is as it seems, and lives turn out to be far from ordinary. In her book, Miss Strout returns to the town of Amgash, Illinois, and many of the ...

Over the course of 13 months, Friedman estimates, he took 200 photos of Minor Threat, 140 of which are in the book. Anything that didn’t make it was flawed, he says: Someone’s eyes were closed, a ...

“I have a minor phobia about the whole literary scene ... I’m not able to get anything done.” She was sipping Diet Coke through a straw at Le Petit Jardin, a most un- jardin -like restaurant ...