During the 2016 election, I worked in events at Politics and Prose, one of Washington, D.C.'s best-beloved bookstores. My office shared a wall with Comet Ping Pong, a similarly beloved pizza ...
A change in wording to the concluding doxology of orations in the Roman Missal, from "one God, for ever and ever" to "God, for ever and ever," took effect on Ash Wednesday, Feb. 17. A Feb. 4 memo to ...
The opening pages of Nell Zink’s irreverent, ersatz social novel “Doxology” (Ecco, 416 pp., ★★★½ out of four stars) suggest a quirky tale about parenthood and punk rock in 1980s New York. But it soon ...
Nell Zink’s new novel summons a time when young people could run away from home to the big city without a trust-fund and make major life decisions inspired by Dionysian musical subcultures. That would ...
It was a bit uncanny to read Nell Zink’s new novel, “Doxology,” in the wake of the suicide this month of David Berman, the beloved singer and songwriter best known for his work with Silver Jews, his ...
Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Nell Zink’s “Doxology” offers a sweeping, multi-generational story of an American family from the ...
“This changes everything.” That’s the pronouncement on Sept. 11, 2001, by a colleague of Pamela Bailey, a longtime New Yorker, formerly obsessed with punk stalwart Ian MacKaye; a mother, wife, young ...
Even blindfolded, I would know that is a sentence by Nell Zink. That subtle intersection of the ordinary and the absurd is her trademark maneuver. Wit ricochets around her straight-faced sentences ...
BENTON, La. - Prayer is powerful, according to Jamie Beverage. Jamie and her husband opened up Doxology Market on 5th Street in Benton 2 years ago, after a hardware store closed, but it's what Jamie ...
A change in wording to the concluding doxology of orations in the Roman Missal, from "one God, for ever and ever" to "God, for ever and ever," took effect on Ash Wednesday, Feb. 17. A Feb. 4 memo to ...