Nonfiction: "Murder City: Ciudad Juarez and the Global Economy's New Killing Fields," by Charles Bowden.

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Reporter asks hard questions about Juarez

DUANE HAMPTON is a clipper and a stacker, of New Yorker cartoons, theater reviews, newspaper and magazine articles, hardcover books from the best-seller lists. They stand in neat bundles -- napoleons of inspiration, exhortation and whimsy -- competing for space with the many side chairs, end tables and foot stools that patrol her Park Avenue apartment.

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How the Other Half Lives

Marcia McKenna Biddle, of Carmichaels, Greene County, was a woman of many interests -- books, history, family, farming, genealogy, preservation, sports -- and most found their way into the weekly

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Obituary: Marcia McKenna Biddle / Greene County columnist, woman with many interests

The oldest item in Yale Law School's rare book collection is a 1,000-year-old fragment of a medieval manuscript bound inside an Italian guidebook for notaries. The newest is a bobblehead doll depicting William H. Rehnquist, 16th chief justice of the United States.

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Bobbleheads of justice (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)

Book news: Hilary Masters achieves a rare double play this year, something only a fellow writer like Joyce Carol Oates can claim -- two new books published in one year.

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CMU's Hilary Masters fiction, essays in '09 (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)

With all of the entertainment Las Vegas has to offer, it’s a rare day when a single event can steal the show. When it comes to Super Bowl Sunday, however, all bets are off

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Big Game a big deal in Las Vegas (Las Vegas Sun)