Whatever their other merits may be, literary fiction prizes do a great service to adventurous readers by introducing us to authors we might...

When I was in second grade, my grandmother sent me a book titled Rin Tin Tin’s Rinty .  I already owned that book and had read it, so my mot...

I was born in the library…..well, almost.  The hospital where I was born was converted to the county library building a few years after I ca...