The Susan Smith Blackburn Prize has announced this year's finalists for the prestigious international playwriting award.

Doug South - The Tampa Bay area's premiere guitar virtuoso - joins Live Music Showcase for an intimate acoustic set filled ...

PEN America has documented nearly 16,000 book bans in public schools nationwide since 2021, where book banning has been on ...

According to PEN America, during the 2023-24 school year, over 10,000 books were banned or challenged across the country. In Clay County, Fla., one man alone has challenged over 900 books ...

Loretta Lynn's granddaughter, former American Idol contestant Emmy Russell, has welcomed her first child. Southern Living reports that 26-year-old Russell gave birth to a baby girl on Friday (Jan ...

The beloved children’s classic and Newbery Honor award-winner, ‘The Watsons Go to Birmingham – 1963’ by Christopher Paul Curtis. Although the church bombing is central to the plot of the ...

The court did not issue a temporary injunction on the ban, instead punting the case back to a lower court for consideration. But its decision means it’s more likely that the issue of older ...

What are three popular tropes that romance novels use? Jennifer Harlan, a New York Times books editor, recommends three romance novels that show off those tropes at their best. An author of books ...

This sweeping novel about the life, loves, struggles and triumphs of a queer English Burmese actor is the topic of our January book club discussion. “Something Rotten,” Andrew Lipstein’s ...