Richard Yates

Carroll County government lowered flags to half-staff this week to honor former county commissioner Richard Yates, a Sykesville resident who died March 5, at age 86, at Carroll Hospice's Dove House in Westminster. Yates served as a member of the Board of...

Reading an ex-husband's unpublished novel might seem a daunting endeavor, but Susan Morrow has been divorced from Edward Sheffield for 15 years, and they now exchange Christmas cards. He says that she has always been his best critic. Susan is now an...

"Work, as you will see, is imagined broadly in these stories - as labor, as chores, as business, as duty, as habit, as memory, as art, and as priestly avocation," writes Richard Ford in his introduction to this wonderful anthology of stories about work,...

What do hipsters and pornography have in common? As the saying goes, you know 'em when you see 'em. That was the joke moderator Christian Lorentzen used to kick off the eight-person discussion "Look at This F*ing Panel: A Sociological......

Revolutionary Road Paramount, $29.99; Blu-ray, $39.99 Despite the Oscar success of "American Beauty," Sam Mendes might be the best working director who has yet to make a truly outstanding film. Mendes' adaptation of Richard Yates' "soul-sick suburbia"...

The characters in Tao Lin's latest book, the novella 'Shoplifting From American Apparel,' are just like us: they post on Tumblr, update their Facebook pages and stay up late G-chatting about what life would be like if they didn't spend all their time G-...

Tod Caviness here, back from one of those vacations you need a vacation from. Which is to say: I have barely enough time to blog, much less read. But for those of you out there who do … - Meg Sefton is going to be the surprise reader at Cup O'...

No, this isn't an April Fool's prank. According to both the LAT's Hero Complex and the Hollywood Reporter, Sam Mendes, the wonderfully cerebral and cultured filmmaker who once upon a time won an Oscar for "American Beauty," is in discussions......

PART 6: PHILIP K. DICK, THE LAST DECADE During the last years of his life, Philip K. Dick lived in, of all places, Orange County, a Southern California setting that made the life-battered sci-fi writer something of a stranger in......

The American Book Review has taken stock of literature and come up with its Top 40 Bad Books. The list targets some big, popular favorites -- F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic "The Great Gatsby," Richard Yates' "Revolutionary Road," the James Bond......

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Fiction 1. The Shack by William P. Young ($14.99) 2. The Reader by Bernhard Schlink ($13.95) 3. New Moon by Stephenie Meyer ($10.99) 4. People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks ($15) 5. Twilight by Stephenie Meyer ($10.99) 6. The White Tiger by...