Studs Terkel, the Pulitzer-prize winning US author, activist and radio personality who created a vast oral history of 20th century American society, has died at his Chicago home, the radio station where he spent the bulk of his career said.

Don Quixote de la Mancha, more modern than you know. Well, this is why I got into this mess in the first place: to read the giants of western literature. And no matter who you are, there is little doubt that Miguel de Cervantes' Don Quixote is a qualify

Pro: Something has to fill the dauntingly empty vacuum of time between completing homework and bed. Your mind is racing with scattered thoughts and you're wide awake -- there is nothing more relaxing than picking up a novel.

Lambda Literary Foundation board president Christopher Rice and Simon Sheppard, winner of the LGBT Erotica Award for "Homosex: 60 Years of Gay Erotica" (Running Press).

Gone are the days of teen girls kissing posters of clean-cut boys-next-door.Now, they want something more dangerous. They want their crushes with a bite.