Literature

A Penn State Brandywine adjunct professor has written Shadow Work, a book that helps people access the repressed part of themselves that is often the…

Dr. Brennan Pursell, associate professor of business at DeSales University, saw the synchronicity of two Francises in his professional life: St. Frances DeSales, known for…

Some years after the Sept. 11, 1777, battle of Brandywine, a writer penned details of the fighting along the Brandywine River that weren’t necessary…

Harriet Fry, a 1995 alumna of Neumann University, decided it was time to try her hand at fiction writing.

After decades of writing non-fiction…

Writers are often told, “write what you know,” and such is the case for Kennett Township native Michael Woodward, whose debut novel, The Handler, was…

Construction of the new Kennett Library & Resource Center is about to reach a new milestone with the placement of the last steel beam. To…

The Dollar General Literacy Foundation recently awarded Kennett Library a $10,000 grant to support adult literacy.

Each year, the Dollar General Literacy Foundation provides…

Chester County will observe April 3-9 as National Library Week.

The theme for 2022 is “Connect with Your Library,” which promotes the idea that…

Baldwin’s Book Barn, a West Chester landmark, is celebrating the 200th anniversary of the structure that holds it. Bill Rettew covered the site’s…

So far, it’s been a gray, cold, wet February. With spring seemingly ages away, it’s prime season for hunkering down with a good…

Lower Oxford Township resident Marie-Louise Meyers offers a thoughtful response to the pandemic and its unwanted consequences in her new book of poetry, Isolation…

The new biography on West Chester native William H. Whyte, American Urbanist by Richard K. Rein, is a timely look at the man who reshaped…

Oxford High School graduate Rose Rowe is one of four winners in the Penn State University Libraries Short Stories contest called “Through the Woods,” according…

Wayne resident Patrick J. Nolan VI — long-time professor of American literature at Villanova University and an Emmy Award-winning writer — has died at 88…