Eileen Griffin always wanted to own a bookstore. So three years ago, when she retired from her job as a national account manager for Random House, she took all her savings and opened the Griffin Bookshop and Coffee Bar in downtown Fredericksburg, Va. It became a local favorite, with live music performances on Friday and Saturday nights. ...more

March 2, 2009

"American Wife," by Curtis Sittenfeld (Random House, $26) ...more

November 23, 2008

Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist E.L. Doctorow will visit the University of South Florida on Thursday to talk about his work. ...more

November 12, 2008

"The 19th Wife," by David Ebershoff (Random House, $26) ...more

September 7, 2008

"The Same Man: George Orwell & Evelyn Waugh in Love and War," by David Lebedoff (Random House, $26) ...more

August 10, 2008

"The Logic of Life," by Tim Harford (Random House, $25) ...more

February 24, 2008

Ira Levin, a mild-mannered playwright and novelist who liked nothing better than to give people the creeps - and who did so repeatedly, with best-selling novels like "Rosemary's Baby," "The Stepford Wives" and "The Boys From Brazil" - died Monday at his home in Manhattan. He was 78. ...more

November 14, 2007