Kristen Stewart makes a splash at the Cannes Film Festival with her directorial debut The Chronology of Water.

Stewart’s first steps as a director came eight years ago with the short “Come Swim,” which she also premiered in Cannes, in ...

Blissful freedom, self-lacerating addiction and trauma color her years from there, as does an inspirational writing experience with Ken Kesey (Jim Belushi in the film). Stewart calls the book “a ...

She presents Lidia Yuknavitch’s story as a series of impressionistic closeup moments that sear themselves into you as if ...

On Monday, her book took home the Ken Kesey Award for Fiction at the 2025 Oregon Book Awards ceremony. Parsons’ book has earned national acclaim as well, taking readers on an exploration of a ...

And in another nod to the past, the album cover is based on a rough pencil sketch of McMurtry by Ken Kesey, Larry McMurtry’s fellow student (and frequent rival) at the Stanford Creative Writing ...

The year prior, Ken Kesey’s One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest had brought attention to the crude treatments in mental institutions, and like the novel’s protagonist, the president’s sister ...

Back in 1968 the story of Ken Kesey’s Merry Pranksters and their attempts to spread the gospel of LSD was not exactly breaking news – it had not, as the saying goes, been torn from the screaming ...