In The Spotlight

Author David Barnett thinks they should and he explains why in this post in the Guardian.  And he puts his money where his mouth is by agreeing to a request by his publisher Trapeze, an imprint of the Hachette company Orion, to included "full, movie-style credits" at...

At least that's according to  J. Ryan Stradal who wrote The Lager Queen of Minnesota because he "wanted to bum around the country and research contemporary beer."   He also wanted to "continue to fight for the assertion that books and beer are a natural pair."...

While Hollywood may have left a romantic impression of glamour and adventure, more often than not, pirates "lived poorly and ate worse," often facing starvation and scurvy among other unpleasantries.  But not the British-born buccaneer William Dampier.    ...

This post by Emma Jacobs in Architectural Digest tells the inspired story of Jean-Jacques Megel-Nuber and his traveling bookstore as he takes books to French country towns whose bookstores have often closed.        Click here or on the above link to learn...

Next time you get to London revel in the Victorian splendor of the world's oldest museum café.   According to this post in Atlas Obscura, stopping by the Victoria and Albert Museum’s café for a freshly baked scone with a barista-made coffee or a specialty tea is more...

Checkout this post on the CrimeReads website!  It’s by crime writer S. L. Huang  who tells the five ways her experience as a weapons expert and professional stuntwoman for Hollywood movies helped her write action-packed crime fiction—and one way it’s actually tripped...

And not only that, it "purported to prove that the siblings were murderous bakers!"   According to this post on Atlas Obscura, a 1963 book entitled The Truth About Hansel and Gretel (Die Wahrheit über Hänsel und Gretel) claimed the famous fairy tale was based on...