Author signing features book about Lincoln Park’s history

Author Craig E. Hutchison will be signing his new book, “Lost Lincoln Park,” at the Lincoln Park Historical Museum, Lincoln Park Historical Museum, 1335 Southfield Road, Saturday, Nov. 8 from 2-5 p.m. The book is $25. For more information, call...

Author comes to Affton High School for book talk on Bosnian War memoir

Author Adis Žiga is coming to Affton High School, 8309 McKenzie Road, on Nov. 10 to discuss his new book, “The Empty Chocolate Wrapper: Bosnian War Genocide from the Eyes of Innocence.” The book talk will take place at 7 p.m., but doors will open...

Book Blessings Project receives donation from Piney Woods Quilt Festival Committee

Published 3:00 pm Monday, November 3, 2025 By Special to the Watchman The Piney Woods Quilt Festival Committee recently made a $500 donation to Paula Carter with the Book Blessings Project for the upcoming 2026 campaign. This will be the eighth...

Author finds her novel’s muse buried across the street 

Jillian Forsberg (left) and Rachel Turner smile at the phone held by a Watermark Books and Cafe employee on Oct. 23. While researching her latest historical-fiction novel, Kansas author Jillian Forsberg booked an Airbnb in the German town of...

Book reviews: Two new novels about life-altering and chaotic relationships 

Edisson and Jeremiah by Michael Carin Guernica Editions, 2025 Michael Carin’s Edisson and Jeremiah, winner of the 2024 Guernica Prize for Literary Fiction, is a fascinating work of speculative fiction. Carin, a Montreal author of both fiction and...

Review: The Exquisitely Entrancing Enigma of ECLIPSE ENCORE

The long-awaited album launch of singer-songwriter Sarah Eliza ended in a tragedy when she was found dead in her waiting room on the fourth floor of an upscale restaurant in Jakarta. That is the premise of Eclipse Encore, a new interactive theatre...

Review: ‘Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere’ is an unorthodox biopic that works

Amid a wave of high-octane musician biopics, Scott Cooper’s Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere takes a radically different road. It’s quiet, haunting and personal — a film peering into Bruce Springsteen’s most vulnerable chapter: the lonely...

University of Miami graduate student turns her life into a novel, ‘That Night’

Kiera Atkins, a University of Miami graduate student, is making her class assignment into a novel. She’s taking her past and turning it into a fully-fledged story. Atkins is currently a masters student at the University of Miami, studying for an...

A Complete List of Our Good Housekeeping Book Club Picks

We've been independently researching and testing products for over 120 years. If you buy through our links, we may earn a commission. Learn more about our review process. There's nothing we at Good Housekeeping love more than losing ourselves in a...

Robert Stilin on Publishing a Design Book

Publishing a design monograph is a major career milestone for any architect or designer. But how exactly do you turn your portfolio, however impressive, into a glossy tome? AD100 designer Robert Stilin, founder of the eponymous New York-based...

Art walk through the book: ‘Where the Wild Things Are’

Published 9:58 pm Monday, November 3, 2025 Cullman City Primary School K-2 artists recently invited families to step right into the story. The art room was transformed into a glowing jungle filled with Wild Things, tin-foil crowns, and clay boats,...

Can’t take it anymore? Then read this book and feel better

Book cover of “I Know White People are Crazy and Other Stories” by Dr. Jonathan Mathias Lassiter. Cover courtesy Legacy Lit Search our comprehensive guide to caribbean events in NYC for more local events — or submit your own! “I Know White People...

French Publishers Bring Shoot The Book Initiative Back to Taiwan Creative Content Fest

The Société civile des éditeurs de langue française (SCELF), the French-language publishers’ association, is returning to Taipei for the second edition of Shoot The Book! at the Taiwan Creative Content Festival (TCCF), running Nov. 4-7. The...

Building bridges: A new book explores Indo-French literary exchange in the works of five writers

Writing Between Languages is a book about Indian authors from different regions of India, who not only write in French but also translate and write between French and Indian languages in various ways. When we think about Indian literature, we...

Local author Michael Engelhard draws on three years in Alaska’s “most storied city” for latest work

Moab author Michael Engelhard will discuss his new book about Nome, Alaska, at the Moab Arts Center on November 14 at 5 p.m. His latest work, “No Place Like Nome: The Bering Strait Seen Through Its Most Storied City,” draws on three years of...

Local author publishes first children's picture book

A local writer has published a new children's book about a baby bug chasing a firefly. Nancy Reed, a Bovina native, said that having grown up on a dairy farm, she always had a "fondness for the outside" and nature. She began writing poetry when...

Calcutta High Court Refuses To Quash Defamation Case Against Lawyer For Posting Book Extracts On Mamata Banerjee's 'Personal Life'

The Calcutta High Court has refused to quash a trial court order issuing summons to lawyer Koustav Bagchi, accused of uploading online parts of a book which claims that West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee had married a person clandestinely...

Coventry students explore storytelling with author visit

COVENTRY — Students at Capt. Nathan Hale School (CNH) was treated to a visit from an author and illustrator when they participated in a free after-school literacy event. Students had the opportunity to meet with author Jonathan Todd, a writer and...

[56th Modern Korean Literature Translation Awards] Kevin O’Rourke Prize winner Peace Lee

Cover of Hyun Ki-young's short story collection, which includes "Iron and Flesh"/ Courtesy of Changbi Publishers Born to Christian missionary parents and raised across multiple countries, Peace Lee, winner of this year's Kevin O’Rourke Prize, grew...

[56th Modern Korean Literature Translation Awards] Poetry Grand Prize winner Sooj Heo

Cover of Pak Seo-won's poetry collection, which includes "Calling 1" / Courtesy of Choicheuks Publishing As a visual artist based in Germany, Sooj Heo, the Grand Prize winner in the poetry category, is a devoted poetry lover who discovered the...