Reading books on Christmas Eve has deep roots in Russian and Ukrainian history. In 1831, Nikolai Gogol’s story “The Night Before Christmas” became a yearly tradition, read aloud to children. This dark ...

Jim DeBrosse is a reporter and columnist for the Dayton Daily News and the author of four books. This is the 13th Christmas short story he has shared with DDN readers. He lives in Oakwood with his ...

NEW YORK, Dec. 23 (UPI) --Craig Johnson says it is rewarding to know that his annual short story releases about Sheriff Walt Longmire have become a part of so many people's Christmas traditions.

We’re making our list and checking it twice – our “to be read” roster, that is. It’s that time of year when we stockpile the best books of the year and buy bookish gifts for the well-read people in ...

Everyone knows "A Christmas Carol." What everyone doesn't know, now, is that Dickens' 1843 tale of Ebenezer Scrooge and the ghosts was just the first in a series of annual holiday books. "The Chimes," ...

Truman Capote, the trailblazing author of “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” and “In Cold Blood,” will be celebrated at the Southampton Arts Center over Thanksgiving weekend. Back by popular demand after last ...

Late on a weekday afternoon in November 1983, I sat amid the scattered handful of moviegoers in a multiplex on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, awaiting the opening frames of the new film “A Christmas ...