Long weekends mean one thing for book lovers: More time to read! We always recommend you read everything you can get your hands on. But if you’re looking for something new, we have a few suggestions for you—books that we can personally vouch for. Here...
Henry Flagler is a name that ranks among the highest of American royalty. A contemporary of Asheville’s own George Vanderbilt and co-founder with John D. Rockefeller of Standard Oil, Henry Flagler was arguably one of the richest men in the world at the end of...
Earlier this month, I had the pleasure of attending a reading by Philip Schultz, Pullitzer prizewinning poet and founder of the Writer’s Workshop. I had been only vaguely familiar with Schultz’s work, but as is so often the case when I attend readings, I sense...
At POP, several times a year we make large book donations to maximum security prisons. We spend week beforehand lining up permissions and details so that we can leave a stack of books at their front door. We are never invited in. Prisons are designed...
