Amanda Knox: By the Book

A first novel is like spring lamb, tender and pink. Athenas that leap from the writer's head armor-clad-Marilynne Robinson's "Housekeeping," say-may not count. Better to find a novel that requires indulgence-Fitzgerald's "This Side of Paradise" or ...

Written by Rev. Kenneth Robinson and Rev. Marilynn Robinson/Special to The New Tri-State Defender Saint Andrew AME Church is choosing to go against the grain this year, encouraging churchgoers to come to "The Saint" on Easter Sunday dressed in ...

Kevin Powers, author of 'The Yellow Birds,' talks about his favorite books.(Photo: Handout)Out now in paperback, Kevin Powers' debut novel of the Iraq War, The Yellow Birds, was one of the most celebrated books of 2012: It won the PEN/Hemingway ...

_ One thing to know about our book club We are the . We've been a club for about seven years. We started as the Downers Grove Newcomers Book Club, but since we are no longer newcomers, we changed the name. This piece first ran in Printers Row ...

Top authors weigh in on their favorite page-to-screen adaptations Less than a year after The Great Gatsby was published in 1925, F. Scott Fitzgerald was paid $16,666 for the film rights. Come and see it all! beckons the trailer for the silent film.

This week, Library Journal and School Library Journal staffers are reading about lots of different places: London, Edinburgh, Iowa, and western China. There are few things as transporting as a book! Mahnaz Dar, Associate Editor, LJ Poetry, a ...

DAILY RITUALS: HOW ARTISTS WORKBy Mason CurreyAlfred A. Knopf, $24.95, 304 pages How do writers and other artists create their work? Our library of mental images includes visions of poets communing with nature, novelists burning the midnight oil ...

Check out the odds and place your bets at William Hill. Books, Event, Award, William Hill Sportsbook The Man Booker International Prize is a biennial international literary prize of £60,000 awarded to a living author for a body of work published in ...

_ About 150,000 people attend Printers Row Lit Fest each year to wander the book fair lining Dearborn Street and to listen to authors speak about their work. For a handful of the 200 or so authors who will appear this year, the event will be a ...