Literature
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Matters of state: Alice Roosevelt Longworth
Nov 01, 2007 11:00 pm - On Valentine's Day in 1884, two days after the birth of his first child, Theodore Roosevelt lost both his beloved mother to typhoid, and his beautiful wife to an undiagn...
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Author appearancesNov 01, 2007 11:00 pm - • Meet Rhonda B. Hurst as she discusses and signs copies of her book "A Woman And Her Issues" from 2 to 4 p.m. Nov. 3 at the House of Peace Bookstore in the Evergreen Ma...
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Best sellersOct 25, 2007 11:00 pm - Best-sellers Fiction 1. World Without End, Ken Follett 2. Playing for Pizza, John Grisham 3. The Choice, Nicholas Sparks 4. Dark of the Moon, John Sandford 5. A Thousand...
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A lifelong journeyOct 25, 2007 11:00 pm - "I get the feeling your mother doesn't ... like me," a doctor confides to Patricia Hampl. "You got that right," Hampl thinks. Meet "Leo the Lion," aka Mary, Hampl's fier...
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Author appearancesOct 25, 2007 11:00 pm - • Meet children's book illustrator Scott Gustafson from 10 a.m. to noon Oct. 27 as he signs copies of his new book, "Favorite Nursery Rhymes From Mother Goose" at Read B...
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Quiet conflictOct 18, 2007 11:00 pm - Ann Packer has been looking in our windows. The majority of readers of contemporary literary fiction in America -- especially fiction written by women -- are women thems...
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Author appearancesOct 18, 2007 11:00 pm - • New York Times best-selling author Nick Hornby will discuss and sign copies of his new book "Slam," his foray into the young adult genre, at 7 p.m. Oct. 19 at Borders,...
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Rowling spends a week in the States
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Author appearancesOct 11, 2007 11:00 pm - • Sisters Olivia Gerasole, 9, and Isabella Gerasole, 11, authors of "The Spatulatta Cookbook" will demonstrate one of their favorite recipes from their new book from 1:3...
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An American storyOct 11, 2007 11:00 pm - Richard Russo was already the patron saint of small-town fiction, but with his new novel, "Bridge of Sighs" -- his first since the Pulitzer Prize-winning "Empire Falls" ...