Told in alternating chapters, the lives of painter, collector and forger blend and echo in ways that none of them could imagine.

The book offers detailed guidance on managing decisions a potential college student must make: whether to go to college right after high school, where one should attend and how to find internships along the way.

Lynch possessed a deeply incarnational spirituality and criticized religion understood as mere assent to transcendent meaning.

Helpless Catholic that I am, I have a confession to make. I am a Bruce Springsteen devotee.

Viertel tells many backstage stories about how the directors and composers managed to avoid a disaster, sometimes only a few hours ahead of opening night.

McFarlane says that she is “drawn to moments when people do things that are mysterious even to themselves.” The best-realized stories here are charged with these moments.