When it comes time to pick out your wedding invitations, one of the first things you need to consider for the invitation suite is the style of paper or stationary you want to choose for the actual ...

I know that I should know better than to believe what I read on Twitter before checking it out for myself, but I recently saw speculation that publishers were phasing out deckle edged books and a ...

GO TO your bookshelf, assuming you have one, and pull out a hardcover book. Is the cut edge smooth? Try another until you spot rough-edged pages. Now ask yourself: does this book impress you more than ...

Each month for a year, Susan Tekulve’s great aunt would mail her an audio tape of family stories she had dictated. As “the writer” in the family, Tekulve compiled her great aunt’s stories into a ...

Deckle Edge Book Festival, new this year, replaces Columbia’s old S.C. Book Festival (shown here), which dissolved last summer. Tim Dominick File photo/The State There’s a new literary festival in ...

As a writer, Dorothy Allison deals in brutal honesty and complex emotions. The Greenville native is the author of the searing, viscerally emotional 1992 novel Bastard Out of Carolina, a best-selling ...

The British Library partners with Amazon to provide free e-books to Kindle users. The future of the book may lie in the deckle edge. Louise Erdrich conflates life and fiction in "Shadow Tag." Obama ...