How did a new literary journal from SUNY Stony Brook Southampton snag an excerpt of Frank McCourt’s forthcoming first novel? The Southampton Review, launching July 27, isn’t your average scrappy ...

I recently finished reading "Stones from the River" by Ursula Hegi. It is a story about a small town in Germany populated with Germans and Jews, all of whom interacted and relied on each other without ...

Whether you were a first-time voter this year or you've participated in every single ballot going back to 1994, thanks for voting in our Best of the Inland Northwest readers poll! You've all helped us ...

An author friend confides his fondest career wishes: scoring a film deal for his first book, publishing a second by summer – and “getting my book on the Oprah Book Club. That would be . . .” The ...

Anne Tyler, Elizabeth Berg, Barbara Kingsolver, Lorna Landvik, Sheila O’Connor, Sara lewis, Ursula Hegi, Mary Doria Russell, Julie Schumacher, Faith Sullivan and Kaye Gibbons were among the authors ...

Every once in a while we’re reminded that a first-rate writing program sits a little more than 16 miles away from downtown Spokane. Which is surprising because the MFA program in creative writing at ...

The Friday Night Culture Club has been meeting to discuss books, and more, for 25 years. Although some of the group has changed over time, the core group has remained strong. Dale Shimmin, from left, ...

Harry Hamlin is opening up about a past romance. The actor, 69, reflected on his time working on 1981's "Clash of the Titans," which is where he met his former longtime partner Ursula Andress. The ...

On December 10, 1851 Melville Louis Kossuth Dewey was born. Just in case you’re unfamiliar with this name, Dewey gave us the Dewey Decimal System that many libraries still use today to organize their ...

In January 1362, a vast tidal surge in the North Sea killed more than 25,000 people (some estimate as many as 100,000) in a region that now encompasses parts of Britain, Germany, Denmark and the Low ...

History confirms that a town called Rungholt once existed on an island just off the coast of Schleswig-Holstein. Purportedly home to 3,000 people, it sank beneath the sea in a 1362 storm tide known as ...