You just know that after spending 16 years as a defense attorney and another 12 years on the bench, retired Pima County Superior Court Judge Barbara Sattler has some stories to tell. But when she sat ...

Home for the holidays, best-selling author Catherine Lanigan is looking forward to cooking Thanksgiving dinner with her family in LaPorte. She also will talk Saturday about her books and how to get ...

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Not long after the National Endowment for the Arts canceled a $25,000 grant to his organization, Ilan Stavans, founder of Massachusetts-based nonprofit publisher Restless Books, began to worry about ...

Readers on TikTok and Instagram are making the aesthetics of reading more visible than ever with creative, and often intricate, annotations. Called marginalia, these markups can be elaborate, with ...

I’m waiting on a call back from someone at the Roaring Spring paper company in Roaring Spring, Pennsylvania that probably isn’t coming. I get it; they’re busy. As the school year begins, the biggest ...

Writing a college admissions essay is hard. But using AI could backfire badly. Credit: Ian Moore / Mashable Composite; Tero Vesalainen / iStock / Getty Every fall, high school students applying to ...

When 18-year-old Priscilla Hadley wrote her first poem for an English class assignment in eighth grade, she never anticipated where she would be today. In July, Hadley released her first published ...

Something clicked in Douglas Boneparth’s head at a conference when a global bank executive told some attendees that the biggest problem the bank was having involved spouses of newly deceased ...

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Twenty-five years after “Swing Low,” her book about her father’s struggles with bipolar disorder, Manitoba-born author Miriam Toews is returning to non-fiction. While she has written in her fiction ...

It was breakfast time at the Sacramento, Calif., home of the novelist William T. Vollmann, which meant time for scotch. Out came two gold-colored shot glasses, modeled after 50-caliber rounds, a gift ...