A Ramble Through the Mind of the Poguesâ Poet
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Age and old habits may have taken their toll on Shane MacGowan of the Pogues, but his feistiness remains undiminished.
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At a Seamus Heaney reading, the listeners hear poetry that's not confined to the rhyme and meter of a specific poem.
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Revolutionary or unreadable? The long, strange afterlife of David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest
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Don't you just hate it when you can almost remember something, but then it slips away? And then it nags at you until you get it settled? Well, we're here to create that experience for you.  Here are lyrics from a song that was popular sometime in the past 100 years.
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Arts & entertainment: Jason Cowley traces the story of the mental and spiritual decline of a gifted writer and close friend
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Looking back at a 25-year old conversation with the late Padmini
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The neuropsychiatrist and author talks about why womenÂs brains are wired for gossip, why men arenÂt as verbal and why, when it comes to intelligence, brain size doesnÂt matter.
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Ruminating on paths not taken is an emotionally corrosive exercise and the common wisdom about regret appears to be true.
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Literary fans get the chance to air their views on who should win the first Man Booker International Prize.
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Tycho:  Page Two of "In The Service Of The Queen" will be available shortly, as he's taking the process very seriously.  Writing ridiculous poems used to be something I did with much more frequency, though it still happens occasionally. I did, at one point, seize the entire site to host a comic musical about TRON.  The urge just rears up sometimes, swiping at the air with its claws, and I must feed it tender, rhyming couplets to bed it back down.
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The bard, or not the bard, that is the question.
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âJerry Springer: The Operaâ uncovers something grand within the small, squalid lives it portrays.
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There is not always agreement between the piano and the voice in Schubertâs song cycle âDie SchÃ¶ne MÃ¼llerin.â
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US folk legend Bob Dylan reveals in his long-awaited memoir that contrary to his renowned image as an icon of 1960&#39;s counterculture, he was in fact an unwilling rebel who dreamt of a simple nine-to-five existence.
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Along with his colleague Charles Simic, the current poet laureate of the United States, Robert Pinsky was taking part in a program billed as âWords and Music.â
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An excerpt from lyricist Sameer's biography, A Way With Words.
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One of the most compelling and screamingly funny voices of the new century belongs to Augusten Burroughs. A former ad writer and recovering alcoholic, he sprang to prominence with his 2002 memoir, Running With Scissors. It detailed a childhood so bizarre that some people insist it must contain elements of fiction.