A first encounter with Jimmy Breslin, the primacy of private life, and what the great newspaper columnists understood before the form began to disappear.

Writing a newspaper column is easy. Just open a vein and bleed. The origin of that description varies. Famed sports columnist Red Smith is most often credited with the characterization of repeatedly ...

News of Marian Houser’s death set me on an immediate search through tubs of newspaper photos, clippings and memorabilia I had promised myself I would organize and properly scrapbook for posterity when ...

It’s National Newspaper Week. Officially, the celebration begins Oct. 5 and runs through Oct. 11 but I wanted to get this column in our weekend edition so you could celebrate with us. I recently ...

If I had written a newspaper column in the 1950s describing all the things you would be doing or using in the 2020s, you would all have signed a petition to have me committed, right? Having a machine ...

Robert Clements doesn’t shy away from his Christian faith in his newspaper column. Yet Indian readers keep coming back for more. In the past 30 years, Robert Clements’ daily column, Bob’s Banter, has ...

"Work's my middle name." --Guy Clark, "Dublin Blues" My editor won't like this one. Whether she knows it or not, she's a disciple of Satchel Paige, the ageless pitcher who warned, "Don't look back.

This column is a bit more personal than others. No, there are no drastic conditions to report, and I am not giving up the column, just making a little adjustment. Here’s some history for context. It ...