Jim Croce secured his final No. 1 while alive with “Bad, Bad Leroy Brown.” The jaunty hit took the top spot on the Billboard Hot 100 chart for two weeks in 1973, a few months prior to his death in ...

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There really was a Leroy Brown. After Jim Croce got done with college, he signed up for the National Guard to avoid getting drafted and sent to Vietnam. At his South Carolina base, Croce met a Leroy ...

I was thinking about that bad bad feeling inside. You know the one - when you hurt inside so much that you feel it physically. Some people describe it as a deep ache or pain located in the chest or ...

The American author uses fiction to explore the life of her Chinese mother as she seeks to understand the violence that marked their relationship At first glance, the protagonist of Gish Jen’s latest ...

When Kerry Alexander wants to write a song, she turns on the radio. That’s because Alexander, the lead singer and songwriter of the Minneapolis band Bad Bad Hats, is interested in pop tropes – how to ...

Gish Jen’s 10th glorious book, Bad Bad Girl, grapples with her complicated relationship with her mother, deploying the comic, gut-wrenching patience of those who have endured narcissistic parents. Not ...