Melanie Jones

AUDIO SLIDESHOW: Manhattan: Tip to Tip

By Melanie Jones and Maggie Astor | Oct 9 01:05 am ET

Two students walk the streets of Manhattan, tip to tip

Roommates trek though Manhattan by foot, in one day.

By Melanie Jones and Maggie Astor | Sep 21 09:28 pm ET

50 States of Literature: Murder in Massachusetts

Before Clint Eastwood brought his masterful adaptation to screen, Mystic River was a novel by Dennis Lehane, the story of three boys in working-class Boston.

By Melanie Jones | Sep 2 10:30 pm ET

50 States of Literature: Heading On Down to Colorado

Kent Haruf’s book Plainsong is true to its namesake, a “simple and unadorned melody or air” that is tender in its portrayal of three families in Holt, Colo.

By Melanie Jones | Apr 29 10:24 pm ET

50 States of Literature: Georgia On Our Minds

Tayari Jones’ debut, Leaving Atlanta, is set during the 1979 Atlanta Child Murders, at which time a total of 29 black children were killed.

By Melanie Jones | Apr 22 11:03 pm ET

50 States of Literature: Exploring in Maryland

Barnaby Gaitlin is the focus of Ann Tyler’s fourteenth and perhaps most endearing book, A Patchwork Planet.

By Melanie Jones | Apr 18 12:50 am ET

50 States of Literature: Down in Louisiana

Rebecca Well’s Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood follows Vivi, Necie, Teensy, and Caro, who, despite being 60 years old, are still causing trouble in Pecan Grove, Louisiana.

By Melanie Jones | Apr 8 09:00 pm ET

TV Guilty Pleasures: Rock of Love with Bret Michaels

At first, the idea of watching Poison front man Bret Michaels frolic with prepubescent girls while they bare all—at least physically—was nothing more than a way to distract myself from a bad case o

By Melanie Jones | Apr 7 11:17 pm ET

50 States of Literature: Meandering Through West Virginia

From the hills of West Virginia comes Ann Pancake’s debut Strange as This Weather Has Been, based on real events and interviews from an Appalachian mining town.

By Melanie Jones | Apr 1 11:17 pm ET

50 States of Literature: Cruising to Vermont

Donna Tartt's The Secret History is many things: psychological thriller, coming-of-age story, radical philosophical commentary.

By Melanie Jones | Mar 5 10:29 pm ET

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