Major League Baseball commissioner Rob Manfred says he has received a formal request from Pete Rose asking that his lifetime ban be lifted and that he will consider the all-time hits leader’s request “on its merits.”, according to ESPN. Rose was suspended for betting on baseball by commissioner Bart…

Late to work on December 19, 2013, I enter the MTV building in Times Square, shivering from windchill. That’s when the scene, vision, whatever it is, plays in my head: Ned Vizzini’s toddler son is now 17 or 18 (“Jesus, you look just like him,” I say), asking me to tell him about his father. I’m not…