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

Writing a newspaper column is easy. Just open a vein and bleed. The origin of that description varies. Famed sports columnist ...

Deadline for my next newspaper column is 24 hours away, and I’ve not a clue about what to write. Crowdsourcing ideas.” ...

Editor: On Nov. 9 this newspaper gave U.S. Rep. Rob Bresnahan space for a column, nearly half of which was devoted to a heated criticism of the paper’s position on opening the government. The issue is ...

George F. Will has been an opinion columnist for so long that he makes the job look effortless, but early on he wondered how he’d ever find enough material to fill two columns a week. So, as Jonah ...

Veteran Austin journalist Mike Kelley, who for 20 years wrote a humor column for the American-Statesman, died unexpectedly in his sleep Sunday at his Wimberley home. He was 81. "He wasn't loud," said ...