It’s fiction week for the Biblioracle Book Awards. Consider these the crème of some very delectable crème of my year in reading.

Let me put it this way, they were the best for me in the award categories I assign to each book. If those categories sound good, they may be the best for you too.

Homewood-Flossmoor High School graduate Patrick Bringley will discuss his book “All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me," published by Simon & Schuster, at an event at The Rock Shop in Homewood.

His biography of Martin Luther King, Jr. has changed perceptions of well-worn American history, seemingly in real-time. It's already in its ninth printing.

Each holiday season, I try to conjure some book-related gift-giving advice. This year, in my procrastination, I have stumbled on what I think is a truly inspired idea.

Maybe you remember the Chicago radio station WLUP-97.9 FM “The Loop.” Is there an old, tattered Loop T-shirt in your closet?

The last time I wrote about my enjoyment of the Reacher novels I got an angry email from a reader.

It seems awfully dumb to have a system in which it pays more to create and bury entertainment than to share it with audiences.