So much of writing involves solitude and the interior life. Talking with and learning from others in publishing is vital too; Christopher Newport University’s 39th annual writers conference aims to ...

Newport News author Jessica Lynne has been awarded a $30,000 Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers grant. She is one of 22 who received a total of $675,000 from the New York organization. The grants ...

Hope you don’t have plans Thursday evening because it’ll be hopping for book lovers. Three authors will be giving talks, two virtual and one in person — on the history of U.S. hurricanes, a giant ...

The newest account by Bob Woodward and Robert Costa — “Peril,” due Tuesday, on the transition period from Trump to Biden — continues the pre-publication headline-grabbing skill of its predecessors ...

Skyhorse Publishing has again picked up a shunned book: Blake Bailey’s “Philip Roth: The Biography.” Its distribution and promotion were “paused,” then halted, in April by W.W. Norton after several ...

“DESPOTIC, feudal and semi-industrial societies do not tolerate philosophy or social sciences because these subjects nurture historical and political consciousness as well as critical thinking, ...

POSTCOLONIAL discourse is not anything new: back in 1978 with the publication of Edward Said’s book Orientalism the postcolonial studies had emerged on the academic scene with a bang. But in Pakistan ...

Western New York native Laura Pederson will discuss and sign copies of her novel "Beginner Luck" at 7 p.m. Monday in Barnes & Noble, 1565 Niagara Falls Blvd., Amherst. Lewis Robinson, author of the ...

Stefan Kanfer, author of "Ball of Fire: The Tumultuous Life and Comic Art of Lucille Ball," will give a reading from his book at 7 p.m. Monday in the Robert H. Jackson Center, 305 E. Fourth St., ...