John Berendt Honed His Voice for ‘Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil’ in the Unlikeliest Place
When he was 8 years old, John Berendt so desperately wanted a watch that he wrote a miniature…
Jim Knipfel, Brooklyn Memoirist and Novelist Behind ‘Slackjaw’ and ‘The Buzzing,’ Dies at 61
Obituaries, he often complained, rarely did justice to the people they were meant to honour, so for years…