Cameron Crowe is looking back on the memories and music that shaped his life in his new memoir, "The Uncool." The book traces his path from a teen journalist to a hit director.

There is in a way a pleasant Philo Vance tone about the novel. It is melodrama that instructs you. While Mr. Vance enlivens his to-do with offside lectures on music and Egyptology, Mr. Wells goes in ...

The Austin-based organization, Dude. Be Nice, is releasing a children’s book of the same name to forward their mission of ...