Denis Johnson was applying for a job teaching fiction writing at Texas State University in San Marcos. "I Googled myself -- it's not as pleasurable as it sounds -- to review my qualifications," he ...

This may be the best tribute disc I have ever heard. Why, might you ask? Because we are fortunate to have performing on this disc, perhaps the last of the practicing bluesmen that actually knew Robert ...

Hampton Sides was just six years old in April of 1968. His father, a Memphis lawyer worked for the law firm that was representing Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and the striking Memphis sanitation ...

Novelist, poet, screenwriter, and essayist Denis Johnson has developed a cultish following over the past two decades for his exacting portraits of malevolence, zealotry, lovelessness, addiction, and ...

Denis Johnson was well on his way to cult fame by the time the desperadoes and articulate lowlifes that populate his fiction attracted the attention of Hollywood. Over the course of the 90s, in ...

At some point during the summer of 1968, my father, who at that time was running a cotton gin in the Mississippi Delta, had to go to Memphis to pick up some parts from the Continental Gin Co.'s ...

(BET.com) — Author Hampton Sides was not sure about the guy who said he had an interesting archive all about the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. Amateur archivist Vince Hughes, the man with ...

The last track on the second side of “The King of the Delta Blues Singers,” released by Columbia Records in 1961, was “Hellhound on My Trail.” The performance, a low moan of eternal damnation and ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...

James Earl Ray was a nobody, someone so unable to form relationships that his own sister had difficulties describing him. He would forever go down in history, however, as the man who murdered one of ...

Early in Rhoades’s rip-roaring, action-packed fifth Jack Keller novel (after 2015’s Devils and Dust), Jack, a Gulf War veteran who has PTSD, hears a commotion outside the Arizona bar where he works.

It’s no slight to Robert Mugge, a longtime maker of blues-tinged documentaries, to suggest his latest offering is a bit slight. Mugge, responsible for such important documents as Deep Blues and ...