If you’ve never cared much for thrillers, Keith Thomson’s genre debut could cause you to [...]

Conference brings star writers to Hoover

Phillip Roth’s novel has lifeless characters, dirty old man and a dildo

I always watch the World Series with the sound off and with something to read.

In THE HEMINGSES OF MONTICELLO, Annette Gordon-Reed presents the institution of slavery through the eyes of enslaved people.

Jonathan Miles – novelist, New York Times columnist and prolific magazine writer – got the inspiration for his acclaimed debut novel Dear American Airlines while stranded in Chicago’s O’Hare Airport.

If I tell you that Paul Hemphill was bitter about a great many things, that [...]

Ace Atkins’ latest novel is centered on the real-life murder trial of silent film comic Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle in 1921. Why is this crime and historical novelist drawn so inexorably to material that deals with violence and betrayal?

Birmingham writer Gin Phillips earns Discover Award from Barnes & Noble

EAT, DRINK & BE FROM MISSISSIPPI: That\’92s the title of Nanci Kincaid\’92s novel about a [...]

Go ahead and mark your calendar for the excellent Writing Today conference, scheduled to be [...]

Write every day. That’s the bloody edge. Do it. Do it. Either you do it or you don’t.

Dec. 9 presentation on “Adventures in Self-Publishing”

Fans of the NPR program Wait, Wait… Don’t Tell Me already know that Roy Blount [...]

John Jeremiah Sullivan, award-winning author and feature writer, loves the country blues. “I’ve been obsessed [...]

I spent most of my childhood and not an insignificant amount of my adulthood thinking [...]

Anybody hoping to have a fancy fried sandwich anytime soon is out of luck: Birmingham [...]

The unlikely bond between Patterson, a Southern populist, and John F. Kennedy, a northern liberal, as well as Patterson’s troubled relationship with the President’s brother, Robert F. Kennedy, is one of the compelling stories found in Nobody But the People: The life and times of Alabama’s youngest governor, a biography of Patterson by Warren Trest, published by New South Books.

Guitarist Don Felder joined The Eagles in 1974 during the band’s On The Border recording [...]

“.. even after April by God there is no excuse for May,” which is to [...]