Correction Addended Fashion and music are no strangers in the magazine world. Tonight, they share the same venue. “It’s a different kind of going out experience. It’s a celebration of the magazine,” said Sarah Wormser, managing editor of Little Red Book, an Athens-based fashion magazine that is run by students. Little Red Book, which releases [...]

Much of college is spent examining the works of others: the experts, the dead men, the impossibly famous. But once a year, Stillpoint gives a voice to the students of the University. Stillpoint is a literary magazine created for and by undergraduates. Each spring the staff publishes a new issue, filled with poetry, prose and [...]

Who doesn’t want to be a writer? This University is covered with the young and the pretentious — the perfect crowd to ignite that literary flame. But hey, why not go a step further … and be a journalist? After all, the market is strong and print journalism is just waiting to give young news [...]

Every story has its backstory; every cause has its effect. These facts allow Téa Obreht to weave the complicated and colorful story of her first novel, “The Tiger’s Wife.” Like the stripes of the title’s creature, the narrative alternates between contrasting bands of tales that come together to make a cohesive and wondrous whole. The [...]

Follow the strange white rabbit. That will lead you to Junot Díaz. “I have this belief that as long as the characters and their lives are gripping, a reader will  tolerate all sorts of textual shenanigans,” Díaz said. “The better the character, the more you can play with structure. People will follow a strange white [...]

When kids can’t read good, sentences just like this one can happen, so it’s a good thing the Olympics were founded in Athens. On Saturday the preliminary round of the “Wee Read Olympics” kicks off with the goal of raising money for the Wee Read program for increasing childhood literacy. “What we do is we [...]

Melissa Fay Greene wrote her first manuscript when she was 6 years old. “I could only write about six words and they included ‘stop’ and ‘spot,’” Greene said. “But even then I knew I wanted to be a writer.” Five books later, Greene is an award-winning author whose nonfiction works have discussed domestic terrorism and [...]

As anyone who has ever tried to make an old-fashioned Southern meal knows, it is a labor of love. With the time and effort involved, traditional home-cookin’ has to be reserved for weekends or holidays. The March 8 release of Rebecca Lang’s “Quick-Fix Southern” changes that. To celebrate, Dog Ear Books is holding a book-signing [...]

‘To Timbuktu’ Have you traveled across the desert of Mali by camel? Have you eaten pulled noodles in Beijing? After graduation, some of us marry and start careers. Others return to family homes and sleep on the couch. But some of us yearn for adventure — that mysterious discovery in some far-distant land. Casey Scieszka [...]

You never know where author Josh Weil will be. “I’ve lived a pretty peripatetic life, bounced around a lot,” Weil said. Born in southwest Virginia, Weil moved to east Africa and experienced his earliest memories in Malawi, where his father, a professor of soil science at the University of Maryland, conducted research. At the age [...]