For Elizabeth McCracken, writing a novel requires attention to matters as small as punctuation and as capacious as the ...
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Local books: How to build a beach read

This new book, ‘Typewriter Beach,’ explores what it means to be a woman, a writer, a star, and, of course, in love.” ...
Kristen Stewart makes a discomfiting directorial debut with Lidia Yuknavitch's memoir, starring a fearless Imogen Poots ...
In “Winter: The Story of the Season,” the prolific mystery writer Val McDermid offers a warm look at a dark time. We have ...
Emily Henry's first five romance novels are all getting adapted. She sits down with IndieWire to chat the movie 'People We ...
According to her website, Whelan has narrated over 700 books throughout her career. Author Taylor Jenkins Reid has called her ...
Former Grunion Gazette executive editor Harry Saltzgaver has written a new book, “No Walk in the Park: Newspapers, Booze and ...
Community members share thanks for local support and promote a Naples light display.
Margaret Atwood’s look back at her life and career shows readers that building and maintaining an independent mind is a full ...
Tayari Jones, Ann Patchett, George Saunders and Veronica Roth return with new novels; Jennette McCurdy makes her fiction ...
In her new book of nonfiction, Val McDermid takes a break from the crime novels she's known for. NPR's Daniel Estrin talks with the Scottish writer about "Winter: The Story of a Season." ...
Here we present the winners of the fifth annual Sandpoint Reader 208 Fiction contest, in which we invited writers to submit a ...