​Colorado through John Fielder's lens

The nature photographer preserves the sublime beauty of the state's mountains and wilderness in order to help protect it for the future

• Aug 16, 2015

​Columnist Dan Savage on love, sex and monogamy

He's the heir to Ann Landers - a straight-talking gay man and activist whose relationship advice is eagerly sought by millions

• Jul 26, 2015

​Excerpt: The Beach Boys in "Catch a Wave"

In author Peter Ames Carlin's biography, singer-songwriter Brian Wilson's hometown of Hawthorne, Calif., became a landmark of musical innovators - and of their desperate family struggles

• Jul 17, 2015

​Revisiting America for the first time

At age 77 an Alabama woman set off on a year-long, 13,000-mile journey to see for herself some of CBS Newsman Charles Kuralt's favorite places

• Jul 5, 2015

​George Saunders' long journey to short story success

The author's works, like his bestselling collection, "Tenth of December," are dark, funny, compassionate, and (like the story of Saunders' own life) take surprising twists and turns

• Jun 14, 2015

​Judy Blume: Resilient, in life and fiction

The bestselling author's latest novel, "In the Unlikely Event," conjures her childhood and a series of inexplicable disasters

• May 17, 2015

​Book excerpt: Judy Blume's "In the Unlikely Event"

The bestselling author's latest novel conjures her childhood in Elizabeth, N.J., at a time when a series of catastrophes sparks confusion and doubt

• May 14, 2015

​A mother's promise

Before her son died of cancer, Barbara Saltzman promised she'd share the children's book he wrote with other young cancer patients

• May 10, 2015

​Lincoln's funeral train is reborn

A group of history buffs has built a replica of the railway carriage that bore the slain president's remains past millions of mourners

• May 10, 2015

​The Wright Brothers and the conquest of flight

Historian David McCullough's latest book examines the men (and their sister) who pioneered an age of aviation

• May 3, 2015

​A sign of life beyond death?

Janis Heaphy Durham was not the kind of person who believed in after-death communication, until her husband died - then, the handprint appeared on her mirror

• Apr 26, 2015

​Excerpt: "The Hand on the Mirror"

Janis Heaphy Durham writes of an event that forced her to question her previously-held views about life beyond death

• Apr 25, 2015

​Kate Mulgrew's quest

The "Orange Is the New Black" actress talks about giving up her first-born daughter for adoption - and the years-long search to find her again

• Apr 19, 2015

​Excerpt: "Born With Teeth" by Kate Mulgrew

In her new memoir the actress writes of her parents, who knew how to drink, dance, talk and "stir up the devil"

• Apr 18, 2015

​Candice Bergen and her fine romances

The Emmy-winning comedienne and memoirist writes in "A Fine Romance" about her husbands and the greatest love of her life: her daughter, Chloe

• Apr 5, 2015

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