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Tom Vitale

Recent Contributions

  • Kurt Vonnegut would have turned 100 today — his war novels are relevant as ever
  • Lawrence Ferlinghetti, beat poet and small-press publisher, dies at 101
  • Nat King Cole remains 'one of the great gifts of nature'
  • The poet of Minnesota, Vietnam and mythical men
  • New biography chronicles Bing Crosby's most beloved years
  • Tom Wolfe, best-selling author and genre-breaking journalist, dies at 88
  • If Thoreau were alive, he'd be 'shouting from the rafters,' biographer says
  • Derek Walcott, who wrote of Caribbean beauty and bondage, dies at 87
  • Why it took 'Forrest Gump' author nearly 20 years to write a new novel
  • Jim Harrison, 'Legends of the Fall' author, dies at 78