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The author and L.G.B.T.Q. rights advocate will take the helm of the free expression organization at a time when challenges to books and to free speech are on the rise.

The author and L.G.B.T.Q. rights advocate will take the helm of the free expression organization at a time when challenges to books and to free speech are on the rise.

In a new memoir, the filmmaker and playwright shares his opinions on Hollywood past and present.

With the publication of a new book about their influential teen drama, which debuted in 2003, Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage have learned to love “The O.C.” again.

Shahnaz Habib’s “irreverent history” takes a lively and sometimes ruthless look at who gets to go where and what gets papered over in their accounts.

Her solution? A packaging business that sells ideas for commercial genre fiction featuring characters from broadly diverse backgrounds.

Films, TV shows, albums, books, art and A.I.-generated SpongeBob performances that reporters, editors and visual journalists in Culture couldn’t stop thinking about this year.

“It’s fun doing something that’s a bit terrifying sometimes,” says the “Sandman” writer, who will reprise his beloved reading of “A Christmas Carol” at Town Hall.

A Laurie Colwin classic and a modern chef’s posthumous memoir.

The act of being inspired by others is akin to collecting pebbles of experience, letting them escape into flowing consciousness and resurfacing them again in one’s writing.