Three soon-to-be books beget three cocktails.  Laura Dave's Eight Hundred Grapes is first because I went alphabet...

I first met Christian Kiefer a year ago when he came to the store for D. Foy's book signing.  D. Foy had just come out with his first n...

While living in Illinois in the early 1830's, Abraham Lincoln and his business partner, William Berry, owned a general store. ...

"In one pocket I carried quinine, in the other, morphine, and whiskey in my canteen,'' Dr. Nathan Mayer wrot...

As Martin Luther King, Jr. Day is celebrated, please tell me you've seen the cover of Life Magazine from March 26th, 1965 - it'...

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My favorite books of all time?  That compilation changes faster than New York Times Bestsellers, but there are always a few constants, a fe...