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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

To write about one’s mother is to risk every kind of disapproval, including the posthumous. One imagines that Gish Jen’s mother, had she lived to read it, would have vigorously objected to her ...