Elaine Matsushita

Elizabeth Hartley Winthrop's new novel, "December," puts you squarely in Manhattan, following the inscrutably silent Isabelle and her parents through an angst-filled month that will shake and shape their already...

He may live in a penthouse apartment that overlooks Manhattan's Central Park, but the feeling that fills Tony Bennett's luxe pad is simplicity. It's a "very simple, functional Japanese style,"...

Long before (and long after) Midcentury Modernism, there was Early Clutter — the design style long-neglected by the chi-chi glossies, whose editors seem to turn up their noses at the...

If you stumble into an attic apartment in East Nashville and find a 6-foot-6-inch guy crouching under its sloping ceiling, a big photo of the late great songwriter Townes Van...

Today, Elizabeth Berg says, she ate a "muffin the size of my head." That seems about right for the writer whose latest book, a collection of short stories, is all...

Stefan Merrill Block seems to have a knack for turning unpracticed steps into waltzes. Take the 20something's new novel, "The Story of Forgetting." It has its roots in writing Block...

Her life has taken her from a Minnesota farm to Southern California to Manhattan and Montauk, Long Island to Kenya and back to California again. Though from looking at Cheryl...

The hustle won't stop when Colbie Caillat leaves her "Coco" world tour bus behind come fall. After taking her "Bubbly" sound around the world — and stopping in at the...