Novelist, essayist and Carnegie Mellon University professor Hilary Masters reads from his works today at the University of Pittsburgh Book Center, 4000 Fifth Ave., Oakland, (Today)

The Fallingwater house in the Laurel Highlands, completed in the late 1930s, may be Frank Lloyd Wright's most beautiful building. (10/09/2008)

The demilitarized zone separating the Koreas seems an unlikely literary metaphor, but it set the direction of Chatham University's first international writers' conference last weekend. (10/07/2008)

Book editor Bob Hoover's selection of the week (10/07/2008)

Let's just say it flat-out: "Our White House" (Candlewick Press, $29.99) is a stunning gathering of children's-book stars, all with a (10/07/2008)