It's time for The Friday 56 , where we share a sentence from the closest book to us. Join in the fun!~ Rules: * Grab the book nearest yo...

Jason Mulgrew has a popular blog entitled Everything is Wrong With Me: 30, Bipolar and Hungry . He writes humorously about his life and read...

Watching the Congressional hearings into Goldman Sachs made me appreciate the prescience of Adam Haslett's brilliant novel, Union Atlan...

Broadway.com | Stephen Sondheim Honored with a Star-Filled Gala at City Center I was lucky enough to get to see this celebration of Stephen ...

The Queen of Palmyra , the debut novel by Minrose Gwin, will find a welcome audience in fans of Kathryn Stockett's The Help . Both books...

Sean Hayes (Jack from TV's Will & Grace ) shines in his Broadway debut of the musical revival Promises, Promises . As the curtain ri...

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks , an amazing true story.

Long before anyone ever heard of Lindsay Lohan, there was Tallulah Bankhead. Bankhead was a rowdy, bawdy actress who worked on stage, screen...

Just as you can't eat one potato chip when you open a bag of Lay's Chips, you can't stop turning the pages when you open a Jacki...

Leslie Jamison's debut novel, The Gin Closet , opens with Stella, a twenty-something woman working for an inspirational writer who treat...

If there is one publisher who has her finger on the pulse of what is hot, it is Amy Einhorn of Amy Einhorn Books imprint from Putnam. One of...

Here's a fun meme from Storytime with Tonya and Friends called The Friday 56. Rules: * Grab the book nearest you. Right now. * Turn to ...

The worst pain a person can feel is the death of a child. Roger and Ginny Rosenblatt's 38-year-old daughter Amy, a doctor and mother of ...

I have been drawn back into old episodes of The West Wing on Bravo TV weekdays mornings at 8am. It's a great way to pass time while on ...

The Broadway revival of A View from the Bridge is playing for a few more weeks, and if you have the opportunity to see it, you owe it to yo...

How does one describe attending a reading with author Adriana Trigiani? You can sense the moment she walks in the room, the air becomes vibr...

For full review in Auburn Citizen, click here. With Valentine’s Day around the corner, what better way to celebrate than by curling up with ...

Despite the bad publicity of a few memoirs by people who were later determined to be less than truthful, the genre is still flourishing. I r...

I was lucky enough to get to attend the tapings of a sneak preview and the first episode of a new NBC show, The Marriage Ref , starring come...

Gaby at Starting Fresh is giving away a copy of THE LITTLE GIANT OF ABERDEEN COUNTY. It looks like a wonderful read, and you can enter by f...