Let's start at the very end: The postscript of Stephen King's 'On Writing' contains some of the most harrowing pages he has ever written. It's here that King describes the traffic accident that nearly killed him in June 1999. — Gary Krist Copy Share Image
The Illinois Constitution was written before they realized they'd have a city the size of Chicago in the state. The constitution had severe limits on the ability of any city to raise monies through taxes and bonds. When Chicago grew… — Gary Krist Copy Share Image
Something often neglected in popular accounts of the Wild West is the extent to which its dramas were colored by the politics and personal… — Gary Krist Copy Share Image
When it comes to jump-starting the intricate machinery of recollection, there's nothing more effective than the scent of approaching death. — Gary Krist Copy Share Image
Let's start at the very end: The postscript of Stephen King's 'On Writing' contains some of the most harrowing pages he has ever written.… — Gary Krist Copy Share Image
Future historians trying to determine what it was like to be alive in fin de millennium America should read the last two decades of… — Gary Krist Copy Share Image
Many critics, when trying to praise a short-story collection, will say that it has the heft and scope of a good novel. But for… — Gary Krist Copy Share Image
The Illinois Constitution was written before they realized they'd have a city the size of Chicago in the state. The constitution had severe limits… — Gary Krist Copy Share Image
Lionel Essrog, the twitching, barking, gabbling narrator of Jonathan Lethem's new novel, 'Motherless Brooklyn,' is no movie-of-the-week novelty grafted onto a noir mystery. Maybe… — Gary Krist Copy Share Image
