If, in his brief foray into book-to-film development, Mr. Veltre learned one thing, it was that the pipeline of hot books that make studios sit up and beg appears to have dried up: “It’s been slim ...

Ever since the Boy Scouts were created in 1910, the national organization has been seen by many as the answer to making boys into men, says UC Davis masculinity scholar Jay Mechling. Nearly 100 years ...

Breaking into the literary profession can sometimes seem daunting. And with so many hopefuls flooding the fields of agents, publicists and other highly prized openings, it might even seem impossible.

Stuart Endick ["A Loss to Book Browsers," letters, Jan. 4] was right that the Dec. 29 Style story "Twice-Sold Tales http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content ...

Men are most often the villains in Nickolas Butler’s fictional account of the drama surrounding a Boy Scout camp in Wisconsin. Ecco, March 2017 The Hearts of Men by Nickolas Butler Husbands and ...

A Vacaville-based Boy Scout is working to make a difference for inmates in Contra Costa by spearheading a community book drive to provide much-needed reading materials for those behind bars. “I am ...

As the members of Girl Scout Junior Troop 142 gathered around their completed book garden June 9 at the Roger Carter Community Center, there were oohs and aahs as well as sounds of dismay and surprise ...

In the late 1800s, when Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell was an officer of the British Army, he wrote his sixth book—his second on scouting. He had spent years stationed in Africa and India, and ...