Those who have gotten into the habit of including a little shopping al fresco to their Saturdays at the city's farmers market, take note - the weekly event has relocated, starting today. ...more

November 22, 2008

Those who have gotten into the habit of including a little shopping al fresco to their Saturdays at the city's Downtown Farmer's Market, take note - the weekly event has relocated, starting today. ...more

November 22, 2008

The Friends of the Centennial Park Library is sponsoring a local author fair Oct. 18. ...more

October 11, 2008

Jennifer Anne Kogler wanted to be a writer since she was old enough to etch her first words. ...more

September 24, 2008

Jennifer Anne Kogler wanted to be a writer since she was old enough to etch her first words. ...more

September 24, 2008

Gloria Tesch, a 14-year-old Tarpon Springs High School ninth-grader from Palm Harbor, has written an 800-page novel. It is the first installment in a planned trilogy. ...more

September 20, 2008

When is a bookstore worth a tourist's time? When it is more than a place to buy books. ...more

January 18, 2008

For years, Peter Meinke had been stopping in to shop at Haslam's Book Store. One day, a high-powered New York editor overheard the owners' son, who clerks at the store, say Peter Meinke was due in. ...more

October 12, 2007

We read a great deal. Yet, we have some books we've never read. They're collecting dust. Many are volumes we bought ourselves and haven't gotten around to reading. However, the majority of our unread tomes are more apt to have been gifts - the subjects of which don't interest us one iota. Hanging on to them must have something to do with our fondness of the gift-givers. We may have purchased a self-help book in the hopes of finding a solution to some personal dilemma. Then, our focus changed or the dilemma simply solved itself. Or, an even worse dilemma took its place before we got past the front cover. We've also purchased a number of books simply because we met the authors at book signings. Our bookshelves are lined with autographed copies we felt compelled to buy. Such is the case with a book we recently took off the shelf and opened for the first time since we obtained it in 1996. ...more

October 5, 2007