Debra Des Vignes spent more than a decade as an on-air news reporter in small markets across the US. For most of that time, she covered crime. It wasn’t until later that she realized she didn’t know ...

Dashiell Hammett, Oscar Wilde, and Jack London: In addition to a shared literary heritage, they were all incarcerated during their lifetimes. The three are also among the authors and works to be ...

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NEW YORK (AP) — Writers in U.S. prisons will have a new path to getting their work seen through a website managed by PEN America that includes information on publishers, agents, journalists and other ...