Populist and patrician, hustler and moralist, salesman and satirist, he embodied the tensions within his America, and ours.

The Jamaica Inn Foundation (JIF) says its Eighth Annual Backgammon Fund-raising Tournament can be relied on as an event to facilitate a distraction from difficult times now facing society.

Grumbling to his friend Edmund Wilson shortly after the novel was published in April 1925, Fitzgerald declared that "of all the reviews, even the most enthusiastic, not one had the slightest idea ...

In other words, Canada will pay a benefit amount reflecting the portion of your periods that are creditable under Canada's pension program, and Jamaica will pay a benefit amount reflecting the portion ...

Penguin Random House has announced that they are to publish Thomas Pynchon’s first new novel in 12 years this October. Shadow Ticket will be the reclusive, 87-year-old author’s tenth book ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. NEW YORK (AP) — One month shy of his 88th ...

It was May 1960, at Jamaica Hospital, when Kevin McMahon was issued a birth certificate ending in 2710. Ross McMahon was born within hours, with his birth certificate ending in 2711. The infants ...

Thomas Pynchon has revealed his upcoming novel, Shadow Ticket. It marks the critically acclaimed and notoriously camera-shy author’s first book in 12 years. Penguin Random House announced the ...

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Sixty-four years ago, Kevin McMahon and Ross McMahon, no relation, were born minutes apart at Jamaica Hospital. Baby Kevin went home with Ross's biological parents in Queens, and baby Ross went ...

Scott Fitzgerald’s third novel, The Great Gatsby – the story of nouveau riche Jay Gatsby’s obsessive quest to win back his lost love, Daisy Buchanan – is best remembered for its depiction ...

That seems to be the mantra for “Make Sure You Die Screaming,” Zee Carlstrom’s debut novel from Flatiron Books. The first-person narration follows no-name Gunderson, nonbinary queer person, at what ...