literature

OLEAN — This Mother’s Day weekend, people with all types of connections to motherhood may see a version of themselves in the play “Motherhood Out Loud...

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Patrick F. McManus, a prolific writer best known for his humor columns in fishing and hunting magazines who also wrote mystery nov...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Even if you're trying to put the squeeze on a ballooning TV watchlist, consider the pedigree of NBC's "Rise": It's from the "Friday...

I don’t know if you have to be of a certain age to remember an old folk tale called, “The Princess and the Pea,” but a portion of this Hans Christian ...

It’s a discussion we’ve had with a few readers before — in particular, readers with more years behind them. The suggestion has been made to us that th...

VINELAND, N.J. — Writing is Susan Droney’s number one passion. The former Salamanca resident has proven it with her most recent book, “Maggie Quinn,” ...

When one little girl admitted she got the nervous jitters from acting on stage, her instructor, Rula Backos assured her that this was a very normal re...

Susan Keenan has always loved books. She worked in the St. Bonaventure University library on her summer breaks from college at SUNY Fredonia, and she ...

BRADFORD, Pa. — While the holidays can draw out the best in people, the season can also pull out Scrooge-like behaviors from others who can spoil Chri...

When Elizabeth Bysiek’s husband, Ed Jr., retired from running Alstom Air Preheater Co. in Wellsville after many years, she embarked on a career of her...

My friend John and I were talking recently about how letters written by Civil War soldiers can bring to life the history we read about and also reveal...

The first book I ever bought online was one I read in grade school titled David and the Phoenix. It was a hand-me-down from an older cousin. I can’t r...

One question that writers are often asked is, “Where do you get your ideas?” I remember it being asked of speakers at some writer’s conferences I atte...

OLEAN — Arthur Miller’s tragic story of an aging, disillusioned salesman will be performed this weekend at Olean Theatre Workshop’s Washington Street ...

Every family has its stories. Shared experiences are the stuff they’re made of — hard times, sad times and funny incidents encountered along life’s ro...

A ndrea Schoenthal, founder and president of Creative Writers of the Southern Tier, says the group, which is celebrating 39 years this year, will tuck...

The centerpiece of a new exhibition of photography and writings by Olean native Robert Lax at the Regina A. Quick Center for the Arts is a full-length...

Retired U.S. Coast Guard Capt. Richard Marcott of Bradford, Pa., will read from his newly published memoir, “A View from the Rigging,” at a book readi...