Loni Anderson, who starred in the hit sitcom “WKRP in Cincinnati” in the late 1970s and early 1980s, died Aug. 3. She was 79.

In the final year of The Far Side, Gary Larson landed the plane with every ounce of comedic and artistic genius that his fans had come to know.

Jack Kerouac’s 1957 novel On the Road has left many such metabolic signatures in our public memory. A seminal work of the ...