On a recent Thursday Dianne and I headed to Baton Rouge to meet up with our son Amos and attend the fifteenth annual  Louisiana Book Festiva...

So much has been written about Harper Lee in recent months and previous years that I will forego any comments on her. The Encyclopedia of Al...

Octavus Roy Cohen was an extremely prolific author of dozens of novels and hundreds of short stories. He lived in Birmingham before World Wa...

I'd like to begin this intermittent blog series with a book barely connected to Alabama, a novel by Arthur V. Deutcsh. He came to Birmin...