Charles Manson was a sociopath, a criminal, and a lifelong predator. He achieved national and world-wide infamy as the leader of “the Manson family,” a commune of his murderous followers that developed in the late 1960s in the California desert. However, long before Charles [...]
The 40th annual Kentucky Book Festival returns to Lexington this November. Weekday events are scheduled Nov. 1-5. The festival will conclude on Saturday, Nov. 6 with the Kentucky Book Fair at Joseph-Beth Booksellers. KBF features 140 authors who will sign books and participate in [...]
In the 1930s and ’40s, Peebles, Ohio, was a sleepy farm town populated by good-natured, hard-working, religious and patriotic people who represent the pull-yourself-up-by-your-bootstraps ethos of rural Appalachia. And those people form the backdrop for A Book of Matches: The Life, Murder [...]
