“What happened to my dreams? Simply put: they changed,” reads Phil Augusta Jackson aloud to a crowd in a furniture store. Tonight’s theme is change. From a podium, the television writer reflects on ...

At the beginning of Mary H.K. Choi’s wildly entertaining presentation for her new novel “Pool House’” at Skylight Books, she reveals she won’t be reading. “Readings are boring,” she says, tapping her ...

Literary readings were wildly popular in ancient Rome, so much so that they became a nuisance, says Tony Perrottet, a contributor to the magazine. Great authors “from Horace to Petronius and Seneca ...

Literature performs this function in a deeper and more lasting way. It does not simply teach vocabulary or grammar. It introduces students to human emotions, social manners, cultural memory, moral ...

FROM PAGE TO STAGE: Melvin Lewis performs at a Poetry Open Mic Asheville event at Sovereign Kava. Series emcee Caleb Beissert believes that the venue's lack of alcohol encourages deeper listening and ...

The 87-year-old pontiff believes reading literature enables individual people to learn the art of reflective personal discernment, empathy with others, as well as entering a dialogue with the culture ...

Brooklyn and Manhattan are well known for their literary talent, but Queens has its share of writers and lovers of the written word too. A lot of up-and-coming writers in the borough are honing their ...

The number of Americans who read literature has dropped by 10 percent over the past decade, according to a survey released in 2004 by the National Endowment for the Arts. That loss of 20 million ...