Bruce Dern runs through life in memoir
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PASADENA, Calif.  &#151; With his film resume, you might expect Bruce Dern to be a hard-living character. After all, he was the guy who offed John Wayne in "The Cowboys," who tried to blow up the Super Bowl with a blimp in "Black Sunday" and rode top gun in those motorcycle movies.
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A flurry of contested memos and memories sheds more heat than light on his record
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Ram Charan's wheeled suitcase functions as a virtual home. The 67-year-old management consultant and writer of business books sleeps in five-star hotels every night of the week, every week of the year. Happily married to his career, this ultimate road warrior logs hundreds of thousands of air miles annually, circling the globe, proffering management advice to the chief executives of Fortune 500 companies, sheiks, entrepreneurs, and the occasional civil servant.
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Having chronicled every stage of life, author Gail Sheehy now has insights on the final stages--from the view of a caregiver. One thing she's learned: Government doesnât always help.
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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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Shortly after his third suicide attempt, serial killer Michael Ross wrote that life on death row was increasingly unbearable. He described the isolation of sitting in his cell 23 hours a day for years amid the endless slamming of metal and dark thoughts of his own horrific crimes and his impending execution.
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In the book, Floyd Landis, last yearâs Tour de France winner, appears to contradict some of the testimony he gave at an arbitration hearing on charges of doping last month.
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Groundbreaking new research by Professor of Anthropology Daniel E. Lieberman â86 validates what Bruce Springsteen has been saying for yearsâhuman beings are, indeed, born to run.
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Writer and broadcaster Robert Elms remembers some of his best and worst interview moments.
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A memoir of life and times in a major boy-band.
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Bob Dylan, the voice of a generation, does not want to be known as the voice of a generation. He says as much at many points in this, the first of a projected three-volume autobiography that, of course, will be eagerly read by a generation. Such handles plainly irritate him and, here and there, provoke an unexpected response: Do you know what a drag it is to be me?
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NEW YORK - Folk legend Bob Dylan reveals in his long-awaited memoirs, &quot;Chronicles,&quot; that contrary to his renowned image as an icon of 1960s counterculture, he was in fact an unwilling rebel who dreamt of a simple nine-to-five existence.
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As a boy, the narrator of Ron McLarty's endearing novel, The Memory of Running, never walked when he could run: "I went from one place to another like a duck somebody was shooting at."
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By Andrea F. Siegel and Annie Linskey, The Baltimore Sun  Feb. 15--He is a man whose life has been defined by racing from one emergency to the next during a two-decade career with the Baltimore City Fire Department and with his community volunteer fire company.
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His dad may have been born to run, but Evan Springsteen was born to kayak.
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The author of âFlower Confidential,â a book that is part confession, part exposÃ©, tours the cityâs flower district.
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It's amazing what nuggets of information you can unearth deep within a book as jampacked as "The Reagan Diaries" -- a 745-page doorstop, edited by historian Douglas Brinkley, that sheds light on how the former president grappled with some of the same executive dilemmas garnering headlines today.