Vin Scully never wrote an autobiography, and in fact he turned down multiple requests, from multiple authors, to collaborate on a book. The one biography that was published, Curt Smith’s “Pull Up A Chair,” released in 2010, was done without Scully’s cooperation – and, as the story goes, Vin wasn’t terribly thrilled with it. “And he’d always give a different reason” for not wanting to do a book ...

Nobel Prize winner Gabriel García Márquez’s 1967 magnum opus, “One Hundred Years of Solitude,” has long been considered one of the greatest works of modern literature. However, during Márquez’s life, he refused to sell the rights to the novel because he felt a film adaptation would not come close to scratching the surface of this […]

Paul Prather: Brother Paul Quenon of the Abbey of Gethsemani will take part in the Kentucky Book Festival on Nov. 2, talking about his latest book “A Matter of the Heart: A Monk’s Journal 1970-2022.”