Hosted by musician/entrepreneur Ben Bronfman at a private residence in Brooklyn, the party drew an eclectic mix of creative professionals, weed legends, writers, musicians, artists, actors, comedians, scientists, fashion designers, academics, and marijuana activists.
As Irving's short story grew to become an American folk legend, the writer was pressed to reveal the identity behind Ichabod Crane.
"Chavela carries with her an aura of grace, charm and a legend," the writer and journalist Paco Ignacio Taibo said in a 2009 television documentary about his friend's life, "but she is also an emotionally possessed earthquake".
In a rare television interview, environmental legend and writer Wendell Berry leaves his Kentucky farm for an inspiring conversation on Moyers & Company.
The music legend regaled writer Chris Heath in GQ with a story about how he, John Lennon and some of their friends masturbated together before the pair became world-famous members of the Beatles.
His renown even spreads to the United States, a country that is famously resistant to translated fiction, but which, Bolaño says, "likes vanished writers (vanished writers or millionaire writers) or the legend of vanished writers".
Finalist: 2016 Theater Masters Festival, Aspen; The Bachelor: Creature of Legends, Co-Writer of Baggage Claim (Daegu Theatre Troupe, South Korea).
Although the weekly adversaries for the Winchesters were often based on urban legends, the writers tried to put their own spin on the stories for each of the episodes.
The new series kicks off tomorrow with Yentob pursuing voluble violinist Nigel Kennedy to his new home in Poland; subsequent programmes will look at pop legend Tom Jones, nonagenarian writer Diana Athill, and the relationship of art and play.
A "lost" script about the downfall of football legend George Best by writer Jack Rosenthal is to be given its world premiere in a pub theatre in Manchester almost 30 years after it was written.
