Mobile and Baldwin County News
Upstairs at the Fairhope Public Library, on Wednesday mornings, a small group of volunteers gathers around sewing machines and embroidery hoops and goes to work on a problem most people…
Ask a group of Gulf Coast readers what they are reading, streaming, or listening to, and the answers will run the gamut from Pulitzer-finalist history to swamp-funk and true crime.…
Pensacola’s first Books by the Bay brought everything bookish to the Museum Plaza at 120 Church Street in historic downtown: authors across a dozen genres, panel discussions, a literary walking…
Gather a group of children around Connie Cazort and something happens that no screen can replicate. She does not read a story — she tells one, from memory, with theatrical…
Clarke County's Parents as Teachers program says AlaTom RC&D Council grant funding has driven a measurable rise in early reading habits among local families with children under 5.
Mobile’s literary community takes center stage on March 16, 2019, when the Mobile Literary Festival returns to the Ben May Main Library at 701 Government Street downtown, running 9 a.m.…
A Mobile-area independent press has announced a pair of literary projects headed for shelves in the coming months, led by the first print edition of Janet Nodar’s story collection “Trumpet…
Bienville Books celebrated 10 years on Dauphin Street in downtown Mobile in 2012, a milestone for an independent shop that opened Sept. 3, 2002, when the surrounding blocks still held…
MOBILE, Ala. — Madeleine L’Engle’s classic novel A Wrinkle in Time turned 50 in 2012, and Mobile marked the milestone with the Southeast’s only official celebration approved by the L’Engle…