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Last year, commentator Ted Rose left his New York life for a Buddhist retreat in the Colorado Rockies. Now, he's trying to decide whether to stay out West or move back to the Big Apple.

After being transplanted from a vibrant city life to the isolation of a small town, NPR listener and USA Weekend reader Ruth Kamps found solace in nature and inspiration in the pine tree growing outside her kitchen window.

A gunman who killed one man and shot others exposes the complex identities of Taiwanese and Chinese people.

Ex-Fed Chief Alan Greenspan will see whether his words will move books as well as markets when his memoir The Age of Turbulence goes on sale. It is already making headlines for its criticism of fellow Republicans over what he Greenspan calls "out of control" federal spending.

Best known for her 1962 novel The Golden Notebook, Lessing's life work spans more than a half century. The British author is the 11th woman and the oldest writer to win the Nobel literature award.

It is easy to talk about great ideas as if they were light-bulb moments — sudden epiphanies where everything comes together for you. But Steven Johnson, author of Where Good Ideas Come From, says the great ideas of the past have taken a lot more hanging out than you'd expect.

Author Ayelet Waldman, the author of Bad Mother, recommends three books about motherhood that offer a break from brutal "motherhood is hell" horror stories as well as cloying sentimentality.

After a two-year dry spell, Hollywood's summer blockbusters finally busted some blocks this year. Now, the question is how to keep that momentum going.

In Joyce Maynard's Labor Day, a mysterious stranger enters the life of a single mother and her son for a holiday weekend. Apart from being a successful thriller, the book is a fascinating portrait of what causes a family to founder, and how much it can cost to put it back on the right path.

Journalist P. J. O'Rourke says it's good to be from nowhere... like Toledo, Ohio. That's his hometown. He shares his thoughts about the city. His commentary was published in full form in the book, Good Roots: Writers Reflect on Growing Up in Ohio.