10+ hour, 31+ min ago  (1006+ words) On May 13, 2011, singer-songwriter Bob Dylan posted a brief note with an unusual proposition on his official website, Bob Dylan. com. "Everybody knows by now that there's a gazillion books on me either out or coming out in the near future,…...

14+ hour, 52+ min ago  (226+ words) The Monastery of the Damned: From the Ivy League to the French Foreign Legion by nicholas tobiasamplify books, 432 pages, $30 So Tobias, in search of manhood, flew to France to join its Foreign Legion. He hoped it "would forge me into…...

15+ hour, 23+ min ago  (1531+ words) Somewhere deep in the heart of America, in the back of a bus hurtling down some godforsaken highway, Walmarts and cemeteries and Civil War battlegrounds whizzing past, mute and forgotten and eternal, Bob Dylan is on his i Pad. The…...

17+ hour, 52+ min ago  (1848+ words) IOWA CITY, IA " William O'Neal II glances over his laptop screen every time the front door scrapes the sidewalk above, the extended'whoooosh'of escaping current like an airlock depressurizing. One of those rare moments when sound has a feel. He watches…...

20+ hour, 50+ min ago  (89+ words) 24-7 Press Release Newswire RALEIGH, NC, April 10, 2026 /24-7 Press Release/ -- Marie Phillips Kilkenny, a 96-year-old author, shares an extraordinary life story in her memoir Four in a Tub, a moving tribute to family, faith, and resilience. Presented by Rory Parnell, the book…...

1+ day, 23+ hour ago  (109+ words) by C. C. Martindale A Century of the Catholic Essay Books for Libraries Press, Freeport, NY, 1946 Hermann died, after receiving the Body and Blood of Christ in Holy Communion, among all his friends, on September 24th, and was buried'hidden little monk as he…...

1+ day, 15+ hour ago  (315+ words) LOCAL author, Susie Sharp, is a contender for the 2026 RNA Joan Hessayon Award for New Writers for her novel, Time For Tuscany. The Joan Hessayon Award (JHA) is for authors whose novels have gone through the RNA's New Writers' Scheme…...

2+ day, 1+ hour ago  (814+ words) April 9, 2026 " 12: 00pm Beaming from the door of his Brunswick home, Michael Winkler greets me in a T-shirt so bright I feel relieved to be wearing Ray-Bans. Recalling Winkler's writing, the jaunty design (six tinned tomato cans, like Warhol finding inspiration at…...

2+ day, 5+ hour ago  (581+ words) Los Gatos has a deep literary legacy stretching from Jack London and Ambrose Bierce to John Steinbeck. The thread took an even more curious twist when, in the early 1950s, Southern Pacific brakeman Neal Cassady bought a home in then-unincorporated Monte…...

2+ day, 11+ hour ago  (967+ words) KCLU 11 new books in April offer a chance to step inside someone else's world April may well be "the cruelest month," as T. S. Eliot famously opined " and even a five-minute doomscroll makes it tough to deny that cruelty is riding at…...