When composer Allen Shawn was writing Wish I Could Be There, his 2007 memoir on living with phobias, his twin sister, Mary, kept appearing before him in unexpected ways. "I realized that it was ...

Allen Shawn never drives down unfamiliar roads. If he did, he'd likely have to turn back and return home, for the talismans he carries with him on trips -- Xanax, ginger ale, a cellphone and a ...

Click here to nominate an educator for WJCL's Teacher Feature. Shawn Allen has been teaching elementary and middle school for almost 30 years, but decided this year that it was time to take on ...

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Allen Shawn, music composer and the author of a memoir about living with phobias. Fran Stoddard interviews Allen Shawn of Bennington, Vt., a music composer and the author of a memoir about living ...

Composer Allen Shawn lives a phobic life. He doesn't like heights, bridges, tunnels, subways, elevators, open spaces or closed spaces. It's something he's just written a book about, beginning with ...

Shortly after his mother’s death at 99 in 2005, Allen Shawn — the son of legendary New Yorker editor William Shawn and brother of actor and playwright Wallace Shawn — began writing “Wish I ...

Shawn added that he's "familiarized (himself) with this case for quite a while" and thinks that "what Dylan (Farrow) says happened didn't actually happen." "I feel that Woody Allen is an innocent ...

Tenor saxophonist Harry Allen, the best gift from Providence since Scott Hamilton took the jazz world by storm in the 1970s, performs with an all-star quintet Wednesday at 8 p.m. at Avon Old Farms ...

Composer Allen Shawn lives a phobic life. He doesn't like heights, bridges, tunnels, subways, elevators, open spaces or closed spaces. "The degree... Allen Shawn's 'Notes from a Phobic Life' Allen ...