L. D. Mitchell

I suspect that most of us have vices that we occasionally rue.  Mine is the so-called political novel.

How familiar are you with the literature of Christmas?

Tradition has it that eighty-six years ago today, on 28 November 1925, 78-year-old fiddler Uncle Jimmy Thompson went into

Two hundred years ago today, on 30 October 1811, the London publisher Thomas Egerton released to the public a

Judith Krug founded Banned Books Week in 1982 to honor a

Sometimes, battling sexism in the normal way just won't do. Sometimes, you must don a gorilla mask, adopt the name of a dead female artist and send estrogen pills to the White House.

In 1821, Charles Knight -- who one day would attain a modest measure of fame as publisher of works like

Printing came late to my adopted state. 

If past ceremonies are any guide, there are going to be a lot of unhappy people at the conclusion of this evening's broadcast of the 83rd Annual Academy Awards.

...the single best collection I've ever seen--and my job has given me the chance over many years to see a number of very fine collections--was formed by people who knew things I did not and built a