On a Sunday evening almost five years ago, Donna Benjamin walked out into her backyard and sat down on a step. She was on the phone with Dana Duckworth, the current University of Alabama gymnastics coach,...

When having to read the many assignments and books students are assigned in college, having the right place to do so is key. Whether your roommates are enjoying their music a little too much or your...

Sofia Samatar likes to read.An award-winning author, poet and essayist, Samatar credits her love of reading as what inspired her to become a writer.“Reading. It’s still what makes me write,” Samatar...

Author Michelle Tea will be having a public reading of her new book "Black Wave" in Gorgas Library Room 205 on Thursday, Oct. 8 at 7:30 p.m. The book is a merging of a memoir and science fiction based...

The outcasts, the freaks, the geeks, the curious, the people starved for attention—that’s who Eric Parker, an English department instructor who co-produces a reading series called Pure Products, hopes...

“Gone Girl,” by Gillian Flynn is the gripping novel that has enticed book aficionados and non-readers alike to read its pages from cover-to-cover, for some in a matter of days. After being published...

Authors face different struggles and hurdles on the way to fulfilling their dreams for their books. Whether the topic is current issues, religious principles or their relationships, the authors all want...

Odds are, if someone has a favorite movie, they have watched and rewatched it so many times that they can recite the film line for line. The obsessive scrutiny doesn’t translate to a favorite book for...

Book Bonanza for the Black Belt is set to give $1,000 worth of books to five 
different Black Belt schools.Jamie Naidoo, a professor in the School of Library and Information Studies, started Book Bonanza...

Whenever someone gets Netflix for the first time, they inevitably succumb to binge watching. Whether it’s “Parks and Recreation” or “Orange Is the New Black,” putting energy toward one particular...