By Allen Pierleoni -
Updated: Sunday, March 31 2013 - 1:52 pm
If you haven't been inside a library lately, here's news: Things have changed. More than ever, librarians have gone high-tech in their jobs as gatherers and distributors of information, and they're very much involved in the communities they serve.
By Debbie Arrington -
Updated: Tuesday, March 26 2013 - 12:04 pm
When Nathalie Dupree needed a big favor, she turned to Facebook. And that social media link brings the "Julia Child of the South" to Sacramento next week for two special appearances, celebrating the book "Mastering the Art of Southern Cooking."
By Allen Pierleoni -
Updated: Monday, March 25 2013 - 1:25 pm
Sacramento's vivid poetry scene make it clear that people of all ages still want to connect in face-to-face settings to share a sense of community, exchange ideas and express themselves through creative use of language. Sacramento's vivid poetry scene offers that chance.
By Jennifer Schuessler -
Published: Friday, March 22 2013 - 12:00 am
For decades, Willa Cather has been a peculiar enigma in 20th-century American literature: beloved by ordinary readers for vivid evocations of frontier life in novels like "O Pioneers!" and "My Antonia," but walled off from personal scrutiny by some of the tightest archival restrictions this side of J.D. Salinger.
