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A woman passes by a graffiti that reads "The Russians are coming - Resistance" in Simferopol, Ukraine, Friday.

Whether it was a picture book lovingly read to us by parents or the first books we read ourselves that expanded our minds into other times, places and lives , the beloved books of our childhood can have memorable and lasting impact.

In 1967, the French critic Roland Barthes published his now-famous essay The Death of the Author , calling for literary criticism freed from considerations of the author's biography and intentions.

Bestselling and world renown author James Patterson is on a mission to save bookstores.

We've already covered the major connections between books and music-but that list is not limited to the world of rock.

G.E. Gallas is a multimedia creator who is currently raising funds to make her short film Death Is No Bad Friend , about Robert Louis Stevenson.

By turns daffy and dazzling, awkward and artful, "Journey to the West" takes an ancient tale and gives it contemporary flair.

After a short preamble, Brown took to the center of the room and, after an equally short introduction, started reading her story "Stillborn" from her collection "Little Sinners, and Other Stories," which won Binghamton University's 2013 John Gardner Fiction Book Award and the Prairie Schooner Book Prize.

Periodically this year, we'll share ways using the library makes your life better, err, awesome! Here are three quick hits for readers: 1. Whether it's Hollywood gossip or classic literature that you just gotta have, start at tscpl.org/downloads .

In a world that plunks authors into brushed-aside categories like science fiction, fantasy and romance, one author is tiring of the "guilty pleasure" label.

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Controversy over reading selections at a pair of colleges in South Carolina last year has reared its head again, and this time it may result in budget cuts for the College of Charleston and the University of South Carolina Upstate.

Johann Heinrich Alsted wrote: "The article of justification is said to be the article by which the church stands or falls."

Divergent is headed our way and there's plenty to get excited about. Shailene Woodley, Theo James and Kate Winslet are all starring in the highly anticipated adaptation of Veronica Roth's dystopian YA novel.

Susan Cain reads a passage from "The Speed of Light" as Janet Russell, left, and Kristy Nelson, right, listen during the Novel Women book club in Victoria.

IT SAYS something about the ambition of Cirt 2014 that an eminent author like Sebastian Barry; Irish fiction's rising star Dnal Ryan; and the Man Booker winner Eleanor Catton, are among the major - but far from only major - names coming to this year's festival.

Festival fun will soon be descending upon the city and county as the Norfolk and Norwich Festival reveals its 2014 line-up of weird and wonderful acts.

With Alice Munro winning the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2013, there's plenty to celebrate when it comes to Canadian authors.

Last week we published a quick primer on How To Introduce Kids To Anime . Today we're going to focus on the colorful and life-changing world of comics.

Paul Ryan's budget proposals are not mere compilations of proposals, but grand vision statements.