What’s a girl to do when she has to leave her home, move to a strange country, and marry a man she’s never met? What can any woman do when she finds herself miles away from everything she knows, hemmed in on all sides by intrigue and shackled to a man who may be old, ugly, diseased, a drooling imbecile or all four at once? If she’s a queen, she might just take a handsome lover!

Short stories that were once thought lost have been found! These two shorts are great additions to any Octavia Bulter's fan's collection.

Sue Grafton discusses her book X, with Tony Award-winning actress and narrator of the Alphabet Series, Judy Kaye. This event was part of the Salon@615 author series.

An original author, creating a fictitious author writing what amounts to fan fiction, that was then borrowed by another fictitious character for more fan fiction, and then back to the original author who took the fictitious author's character and wrote her own fan fiction? What's not to love about that?

Ever wonder why Veterans Day is always November 11? 

Daniel José Older magnificently infuses magic, culture and heritage with typical elements of fantasy.

I could read Daphne du Maurier stories for the rest of my life.

In her delightful memoir How to Be a Heroine or, What I’ve Learned from Reading Too Much, playwright Samantha Ellis revisits the stories that shaped her development as a woman and a writer, paying homage to the those literary heroines who became her muses.

You might not expect a novel about killer plants to be thoroughly lacking in over-the-top corniness, but John Wyndham's The Day of the Triffids handily pulls it off.

A. Philip Randolph was an activist who spoke out about inequality and labor rights in the early part of the 20^th century, helping to pave the way for civil rights even before Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcom X.