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The comedian turned his life around when he started "WTF with Marc Maron" out of his garage in 2009. He has parlayed the popularity of the podcast into a new television show called Maron, based on his life, as well as a new memoir.

Also: The U.K. issues Jane Austen postage stamps; in the U.S., biographer Paula Broadwell's promotion in the Army Reserves is suspended; it's Edward Gorey's birthday; and an anti-bullying poem goes viral.

The awards, which come with a $50K purse, have helped launch the writing careers of many now well-known authors, including Colson Whitehead, Ocean Vuong, Alice McDermott and Jia Tolentino.

We ranked a list of 100 songs that reflects the sprawling, energetic messiness of 2022. Start listening.

The Prague native was a proud promoter of his country's musical heritage — from Antonín Dvořák to Bohuslav Martinů — with the world's top orchestras.

President Trump wants European countries to start buying U.S. chicken and eggs. But the U.K. and EU think American poultry is gross and chemically washed. Turns out, chlorine isn't really the issue.

David Lipsky reviews the latest installment of Brian K. Vaughan's Y: The Last Man, graphic novels that depict the adventures of Yorick Brown and his monkey Ampersand. The futuristic tale mixing humor and disaster is in its seventh volume, "Paper Dolls."

The new book Burning Down the Haus fastidiously traces the self-discovery of punks in the socialist dictatorship of East Germany, and the violence and repression they endured on the way to freedom.