Kurt Vonnegut once said that every story has a shape. He famously drew them out; the rise and fall of fortunes, the emotional arcs that make us human. But if he were alive today and scrolling through ...

Linda Murphy, a Massachusetts woman who battled ALS, has become a posthumous viral sensation for her humorous self-written obituary. Murphy, who was raised in Framingham and lived in Boylston, passed ...

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Joyride,” her new book, started as a guide for aspiring journalists, but turned into a full-fledged memoir about her ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Ages ago my mate Veronica and I hatched a business idea we still talk about: filming people delivering their own eulogies, then stashing ...

The author of books such as “The Orchid Thief” and “The Library Book” delves into her own life story in “Joyride.” ...

David Ball of Soft Cell, whose delectably sleazy synth-pop arrangement drove that English duo’s 1981 hit “Tainted Love” to ...

Besides his work with pop stars and jazz greats, he is credited with helping to invent the six-string contrabass guitar.