“When he grows up, maybe he’ll learn how to check himself out.” Jerry Zezima writes a humor column for Tribune News Service and is the author of seven books. His latest is “The Good Humor Man: Tales ...

THE ORIGINAL DAUGHTER transports us to 2015, to Singapore. The novel opens with a mother on her deathbed, with one daughter next to her asking to speak to the other. From there, we jump back to 1996 ...

Discover a new author with Check This Out. This series features host Rachel Barenbaum in conversation with emerging and diverse writers about their latest work. The third season of writer interviews ...

Bay Area libraries draw book lovers, of course, who frequent those literary spaces to read and borrow novels, nonfiction volumes and picture books. But those halls hold so much more. They are ...