Matt Dinniman introduced his series about an alien reality TV show free on the web. But readers ate up the goofy humor, now to the tune of 6 million books sold.

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His two-character work won a Pulitzer Prize and had a long Broadway run, but he never replicated its success and struggled to get his later work staged.

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Readers respond to a librarian who wrote that listening to a book qualifies as reading.

Jewish Currents is fighting the good fight.

I needed to stop thinking that I knew more than the author and give in to whatever ride they had spent years planning.

In a world taken over by the digital, hard-copy, handwritten diaries are a way to fight back.

Our love of his plays have led to a centuries-long fascination with the writer. So why does each new fictional iteration get his life so wrong?