The past, present and future of a community are inexorably linked, and since the advent of photography, there’s been no better way to compare and contrast where we’ve been, where we are — and where we’re going.

THE SAVANNAH Children’s Book Festival, happening Saturday and sponsored by Live Oak Public Libraries, is one of the most well–attended and popular local events of the year.

Calling all writers, journalists, scribes and anyone who puts pen to paper and fancies themselves the literary type. Seersucker Live wants to know you.

Poet and Savannah State professor Chad Faries can now add memoirist to his list of occupational descriptors. His new book, an unflinching exploration of his upbringing in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula titled Drive Me Out of My Mind, hits shelves this week.

Before he was an award winning children’s book writer and illustrator, Mo Willems had what many people would consider a dream job.

Author and New York Times columnist Gail Collins knows quite a lot about the achievements of women, and in her last several books she’s created a social history for several hundred years worth of evolving social mores and shattered glass ceilings.

In the transition from Black History Month to Women’s History Month, the book Savannah’s Black “First Ladies” Vol. 1, by locals Pamela Howard–Oglesby and Brenda Roberts is the bridge to cross.

Mallory Pearce, who returned to his boyhood home on Tybee Island in 1990 after 35 years of creating animated educational films in Los Angeles, is the island’s best known naturalist.

In a city whose history appears so well–preserved, it would be easy to assume that all the stories had been told, particularly of life in the Hostess City during the Civil War.

San Francisco Bay native Marc Smirnoff became a Southerner by accident in 1989, after his car broke down in Mississippi. He took a job in an Oxford book store and became fascinated by – and hooked on – the great Southern writers. And he never went back home.

A little to the south of Macon, near the town of Bullard, Georgia, there’s a 2,500 acre tree farm called Charlane Plantation. Here, Chuck Leavell and his wife Rose Lane grow pines for harvest – in 1999, they were named National Outstanding Tree Farmers of the Year by the American Forest Foundation and the American Tree Farm System – and maintain healthy wild populations of deer, turkeys, quail and ducks.

Joshua Slocum was the first man to sail around the world alone. Geoffrey Wolfe has written a new biography about him, The Hard Way Around.

The Matterhorn is a mountain in the Alps. But in Karl Marlantes’ novelized account of his years as a Marine in Vietnam, it’s the code name of a hill to be savagely fought over.

Local author Phyllis Tildes had a dream of being a children’s book illustrator, and although she it took her until age 50 to make that dream come true, she’s made up for lost time.

The Savannah Book Festival doesn't happen until the weekend of Feb. 18-19, but we wanted to give you a sneak peek to get you in the mood.