Barbara Taylor Bradford, a British journalist who became a publishing sensation in her 40s with the saga “A Woman of Substance” and wrote more than a dozen other novels that sold tens of millions of copies, has died. She was 91.
Chicago engineer Jose Cardona says the idea for a clock wasn’t his alone, he was just the first to build one. Four years later, they can’t make them fast enough.
In her new book, “We Will Rest! The Art of Escape,” the author and academic says you too can flee the toxic grind culture.
It is deeply pleasing to know that Dorothy Allison lived a happy and fulfilled adult life. Her work will endure long after her death.
On Nov. 14, 1851, Herman Melville’s novel “Moby-Dick; Or, The Whale” was published in the United States, almost a month after being released in Britain.
Green Hills Public Library District’s first podcast, “Checked Out,” features discussions of books, TV, movies and more.
“The Name of This Band Is R.E.M.” is told from the point of view of the people who loved the band, a book for fans with the voices of fans.
The book announces itself as “a comedy” on the cover, but is also, at times odd, sweet, foreboding, sentimental and unsettling.
Robert Coover published more than 30 books, starting with “The Origin of the Brunists” in 1966 and concluding with “Open House” in 2023.
Writers like Charles Stevenson Wright, William Melvin Kelley and John A. Williams should be brought back into the light.