America’s literacy crisis is, well, still a crisis. Recent studies have found that four in 10 Americans didn’t pick up a ...

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‘Taylor Swift By the Book: The Literature Behind the Lyrics, from Fairy Tales to Tortured Poets’ will be published this year Carly Tagen-Dye is the Books editorial assistant at PEOPLE, where she ...

Plan out which events you will attend during the city's three-day literature festival next weekend.

British novelist Charles Dickens (1812-1870) sat in his study in Gads Hill near Rochester, Kent circa 1860. He wrote one of the best first lines in literature. Great opening lines to books set the ...

“Neshama,” Marcella Pixley’s lyrically written novel-in-verse, won the gold medal for Jewish children’s literature for middle ...

As an event name, “Proof: A Midwest Lit Fest” works on more than one level. In publishing, a proof is a document used to confirm final corrections before a work goes to press. A more universal ...

You might think founding a legendary local indie bookstore chain, creating one of the top book fairs in the nation, and backing that up with a successful side hustle in major motion picture production ...