JIM BECKERMAN The Record (Bergen County, NJ) 01-11-2004 Everyman as Somebody -- Mitch Albom's books discount society's definition of success JIM BECKERMAN Date: 01-11-2004, Sunday Section: LIVING Edtion: All Editions.=.Sunday Column: PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS Americans like to be told how. We...

JENELLE RILEY, BACK STAGE WEST The Record (Bergen County, NJ) 09-07-2006 Everyman returns -- Brad Garrett is back on the sitcom ' 'Til Death' By JENELLE RILEY, BACK STAGE WEST Date: 09-07-2006, Thursday Section: ENTERTAINMENT Edtion: All Editions For nine seasons,...

Literary awards are old news for Philip Roth, but his latest honor is truly special: The first ever PEN/Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American Fiction, a $40,000 prize named for the late Nobel laureate and one of Roth's closest friends and literary heroes."To my...

For years, Jackson Browne wrote beautiful songs, other people sang them and Jackson took his own sweet time about recording an album. Two years ago his first record was released, so beautiful, ineffably sad and movingly perfect for gentle love on rainy nights. He was instantly revealed. And now ["For Everyman"]. Jackson is more than sweet, alive in dream ways and held childhood. He sings of childhood; the gap of retrograde motion, the life motion that causes us still to be so much of what we o...

[On "For Everyman" Jackson Browne] presents a moody catalogue in which nothing is quite right: Life doesn't make too much sense; love and work don't quite work out; there is meaning, but not enough meaning, in the experience of being alive. Browne's melodies are not terribly fresh; his lyrics are not particularly original. But the tone of his work is perfectly suited to those overpowering and ambivalent adolescent moods that are so chic when one is of college age. While hi...