Carson McCullers

Savanna Beauchamp Barnett - High School: Mercer County Senior High School - Achievements: Two-time state finalist with the MCSHS Marching Band, ranked No. 1 in the girls singles division of the Central Kentucky Tennis Series for two years, A and A-B...

Earlier this year, when Russian President Vladimir Putin proposed a 100-book required reading list for his compatriots, it provoked anxiety, rekindling memories of Soviet-era censorship. The furor underscored an important point: that literature plays a...

When it came to reading a book out loud, Dustin Hoffman was a bit rusty. The last time he had done something similar was in New York City in the late 1960s, right after filming "The Graduate." A local radio station had recruited 30 or so people, including...

Movie stars really do know how to read: Audible is ready for its Hollywood close up...

When it came to reading a book out loud, Dustin Hoffman was a bit rusty. The last time he had done something similar was in New York City in the late 1960s, right after filming "The Graduate." A local radio station had recruited 30 or so people, including...

So many actors say they knew from an early age that they belonged onstage. But Amanda Peet actually hurled herself onto one -- while a production was in progress -- when she was 3. "Luckily it was a children's play," says Peet, who stars in NBC's "Bent,"...

"All well-regulated families set apart an hour every morning for tea and bread and butter." * Times have sure changed since the 17th century when Joseph Addison penned those words. A "well-regulated" family may be many things to many people and...

Let the fireworks begin. When talk turns to naming the Great American Novel — the upper-case designation is required by custom, if not by law — tempers tend to flare. Each time I approach the subject in a column, and display the shameless...

Roberts Blossom, a veteran character actor who played the old, white-bearded next-door neighbor who befriends young Macaulay Culkin in the hit movie "Home Alone," has died. He was 87. Blossom died Friday of natural causes at a nursing home in Santa...

When folk singer Suzanne Vega first heard her biggest hit, “Luka,” on the radio nearly 25 years ago, she says it surprised even her. “I have to say, the first time I heard it on radio, it just kind of......

At her best, folk-pop singer Suzanne Vega is a female Bob Dylan, crafting lyrics that tell stories both sweepingly universal and starkly detailed at the same time, and wrapping them in melodies that pierce the soul. Vega was at her......

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