Native Kentuckian Bobbie Ann Mason's first book, Shiloh and Other Stories,won the PEN/Hemingway Award in 1982; her memoir, Clear Springs,was one of three finalists for the Pulitzer Prize, and the film ...

With hundreds of books on Elvis Presley already in print before the recent 20th anniversary of his death, there is some question why a new 500-page retelling of his life is necessary. Perhaps it’s ...

Elvis Presley would have been 70 this year, a difficult thing to conceive given the persistence of his lively younger selves in the public mind and pop culture whirl. Who knows what he might have ...

Being Elvis meant being a bundle of contradictions. The singer could reduce a crowd of teenage girls to a weepy, screaming mess with his instinctive, provocative performances, then be confused by ...