"Evening in Paradise: More Stories" (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), by Lucia Berlin: In 2015, the posthumous publication of the short story collection "A Manual for Cleaning Women" made its author Lucia ...

In a good short story, nothing happens until something happens, and makes you realize that actually something was happening all along. Without knowing it, this whole time you had been watching events ...

Every weekday, my mother woke up coughing a few minutes before noon, right before All My Children started. First, she’d put on her frayed pink bathrobe and walk to the bathroom sink. There she’d pop ...

In 2015, a hefty, salmon-colored volume of stories by a writer who had died unknown 11 years earlier appeared and became a sensation. "A Manual for Cleaning Women" by Lucia Berlin was read with ...

Two of the best reasons to be alive as a reader this decade have been the rediscovery of two American writers who published much of their best work in the 1970s and ‘80s: Eve Babitz and Lucia Berlin.

In the late 1980s, when her writing was in peak bloom, Lucia Berlin made a list: “The Trouble With All the Houses I’ve Lived In.” Her 33 locations ranged from Alaska, where she was born, to Idaho, ...

Get Access To Every Broadway Story Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Directed by Nancy Shelby and JoAnne Winter, ...

“Welcome Home,” a memoir patchworked from the autobiographical notes, letters and photographs of Lucia Berlin, features a list: “The trouble with all the houses I’ve lived in.” At 33 entries long, it ...

All through the dark days of winter Johnson would read the walls. It was important to mix up the pages and magazines, so that page 20 might be high on a north wall and 21 on the bottom of the south ...