Katherine's Book Backyard

Kentucky was once known as "the dark and bloody ground" but to my mind, it's Kansas that deserves that appelation. We tend t...

For most people, the state of Delaware is mostly famous for being the birthplace of everybody's favorite ex-VP and cu...

Photo by Jim Virga/courtesy of Simon & Schuster In 1986, when I was a newly minted reporter covering total fluff, Edna Buchanan won a...

I used to work for a now-defunct weekly newspaper called the L.A. Reader . I was a general assignment reporter there, which meant I covered ...