The story of Phillip Herron is a heartbreaking tale of a single father, unable to handle the pressure of rising debt and providing for three young children. Sadly, an image of him moments before ...

Michael Cunningham's Day joins a new wave of pandemic novels, including Ann Patchett's Tom Lake, Chris Bachelder and Jennifer Habel's Dayswork, and Sigrid Nunez's The Vulnerables.

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Soon, however, he started inventing stories outright, launching a genre that would encompass everything from “The Chronicles of Narnia” by C.S. Lewis and Kenneth Grahame’s “The Wind in the ...

One netizen got curious about how life turned out for the lonely kids from people's high schools and quite a few people went down memory lane. The post 49 Stories About The Lonely Kid’s Life ...

Everybody Has a Sad Story. WFB 100; Donate; ... about Charles Murray’s thesis in that book is that there isn’t really any meritocracy — if the most important life outcomes are conditioned ...

Few musical genres capture the art of telling a sad story beautifully quite like classic country and Western songs. This storytelling music comes from places where life is hard: working-class ...

Some TV viewers and social media users are feeling rattled following the death of 28-year-old Arizona news anchor Ana Orsini.She died of a brain aneurysm. “This is such a sad story,” one ...

Reichert, Weinsting, and Pileggi blends equal parts humor, sweetness, and melancholy to tell Lewis’ end-of-life story with dignity and grace. Summer 2025 Guide ST.