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Kurt Vonnegut dies at 84. It was bound to happen. But that doesn’t make it any better.

When I take to the road in a big way, big things happen. For example: 1989: As I’m driving from California to Rhode Island, Chinese students gather in Tiananmen Square…

Thanks to Bookfox I now know that Steve Erickson’s got a new website, and a new book — Zeroville — coming out this fall, they say. I’m always ready to…

Michael Chabon is the most illustrious Pitt writing program alumnus; perhaps that’s why none of us expected him to stop by campus. Until we got the secret, hush-hush news that…

Some people write fast — Joyce Carol Oates, for example, has written 34 novels since 1964. In her own name, that is — she’s also published 11 pseudonymous novels, dozens…

If you’re lucky like me, you heard Richard (The Echo Maker) Powers on Fresh Air while caught in traffic today. And if you weren’t that kind of lucky, click on…

At The Happy Booker, author Katharine Min (Secondhand World) takes up the truth-or-fiction question: No, my childhood home did not burn down; my parents are still very much alive; I’m…

That’s Pittsburgh’s Carnegie Music Hall and Jhumpa Lahiri doing a Q&A for the Dru Heinz Lecture Series Monday night.

Add yours to the list that’s going over at The Elegant Variation.

This election day my thoughts have turned to Hunter S. Thompson, whose Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail is both smart and hilarious, and never matched up to the…