Open this photo in gallery: So it comes as little shock that none of the thirty-plus entries in Guestbook, which proclaim themselves, through a subtle debossing on the book’s cover, to be “ghost ...

As we head to breakfast near her West Village apartment, Leanne Shapton has a pressing question. “Does the cover look As we head to breakfast near her West Village apartment, Leanne Shapton has a ...

Leanne Shapton did not go to the Olympics, she tells us on the first page of “Swimming Studies” — but she did get to the Olympic trials. She was, according to her finish there, the eighth-fastest ...

Shapton was named after her maternal grandfather, Leandro, an engineer in the Philippines, who died in a mining disaster when her mother, Lorna, was still a child. Lorna was a secretary; Shapton’s ...

This book is not – as its publishers would have it – a love letter to swimming. It is far more complicated. At times, it comes closer to being the opposite. It is brilliant, eccentric and moving – an ...

Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Leanne Shapton is making a beeline for the water. "Shall we go for a walk?" she says, ushering me out of the rambling house with the ...

POMONA – After nearly 44 years as a city employee, Greg Shapton retired Thursday as director of the Pomona Public Library and the city’s community services director. Fellow employees said they are ...