The Alabama Writers Symposium celebrates its 11th anniversary in Monroeville, Thursday, May 1 through Saturday, May 3. This year's symposium combines elements of a literary festival and an academic conference, bringing some of Alabama's most celebrated

The Southern Festival of Books today released the names of some of the authors who will appear at this year's event, scheduled to be held Oct. 10-12 on War Memorial Plaza.

CARBONDALE — The idea is to get everyone in the valley on the same page — or at least in the same book — for a month.

THE PIECE: A limited, first-edition copy of "New Orleans Drawn and Quartered" by Olive Leonhardt, published in 1938 and signed by Lyle Saxon, author of the book's foreword.