"How strange to remember typewriters, with their jammed keys and snarled ribbons and the smudgy carbon paper for copies." Margaret Atwood...

I'm excited to be giving a lucky reader this beautiful hardback copy of Southernmost by Silas House! We're heading to Key West soon and...

Author Adriana Trigiani, a Big Stone Gap native who writes and publishes about one bestseller a year, recommends it: a board filled with...

There are two places I always look for when I visit cities: an interesting graveyard and a literary site. The Poe house in Baltimore and his

DIY Paper Roses from Upcycled Book Pages

The season of giving is officially underway. I often get questions from people who are putting together gift baskets for friends and...

We’ve been to Salem, Massachussetts (the “witch city”) twice (we took the train from Boston), and because it’s a place we love (and a...

Tips and Tricks for Quick Trip Travel Deals

As the saying goes, when one door closes, another opens. In our case, when all the hotels are full because of a university home football...