Sherwood Anderson visited Paris twice during his life; once in 1921 and once in 1926-1927. Each trip lasted only a few months and, of the two, the first was by far the more important. Indeed, the second trip--which began in late December 1926 and ended i...

The works of the American writer Sherwood Anderson (1876-1941) are graced by a psychological complexity absent from earlier American fiction. His stories stress character and mood, and his style is laconic and colloquial. Sherwood Anderson was born on Se...

Sherwood Anderson, now regarded as one of the most important American writers in the short-story form, was born to Irwin McLain Anderson and Emma Smith in Camden, Ohio, on 13 September 1876 and raised in Clyde, Ohio. After a variety of jobs in Clyde (his...

Although he starred in the musical Footloose, Kevin Bacon has made a career of less than cheery parts. By LESLEY O'TOOLE It was Footloose, the 1984 American musical about a young dancer fighting the local minister's rock'n'roll ban, that made Kevin Bacon, until...

FOR THE RELIEF OF UNBEARABLE URGES By Nathan Englander Knopf. 205 pp. $22 Reviewed by Michael Lowenthal "Jews in Space," the bizarrely hilarious faux movie trailer at the end of Mel Brooks's "History of the World Part I," depicted black- hatted Hasidim...

Young man of the hour Shia LaBeouf and his beautiful, raven-haired Transformers co-star Megan Fox both turned 21 this year. She celebrated at a Maxim magazine party and Shia went to a cigar lounge in Beverly Hills to smoke and have a little scotch to...