There is a personal relationship and experience we each have with art. Beyond the foundational role the arts play in culture, ...

From the Brontë sisters to Kurt Vonnegut to Zora Neale Hurston, these are the best classic books to add to your TBR this year ...

Junie' author Erin Crosby Eckstine wrote her new book to preserve her family's stories. Here's how it came to life during the ...

Bill Watterson, “Calvin and Hobbes” “Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends ... distance and silence.” — Isabel Allende “Walking with a friend in the ...

Where to read this: Barnes & Noble. Isabel Allende in her house in Caracas, Venezuela. In Of Love and Shadows, Allende introduces readers to the passionate relationship between Irene Beltrán ...

WATCH: Isabel Allende on studying real people for characters in her novels When writer Isabel Allende creates characters for her novels, she often looks to real people as “models.” For a crime ...

Isabel Allende was born in Peru, in 1942, and raised in Chile. She says she was “raised with stories. There was no television in Chile at the time, and we didn’t go to the movies. People sat ...

By Karl Kirchwey Karl Kirchwey’s eighth book of poems, “Good Apothecary,” will be published this year. He teaches in the M.F.A. program in creative writing at Boston University, where he ...

Lookout's man about town delivers what you need to know from around Santa Cruz County arts & entertainment, plus recommendations for things to do this weekend and beyond.