Fire Island is always a summer hot spot for Long Islanders as well as tourists, but this year it also seems to be the "in" place for literary characters. Three new novels — "On Fire Island," "Kismet" ...

Authors say Maine islands can conjure ideas of romance, escapism, drama and suspense. Here a boy takes a leap of faith into a quarry on Vinalhaven. Brianna Soukup/Staff Photographer, file A Maine ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. For a show that became such a big pop cultural hit, "Gilligan's Island" had a somewhat fraught history. For one thing, the pilot episode ...

Jessica is a freelance writer with an unrepentant love of all things sci-fi and fantasy, be it in book, film, or video game format. California is definitely not an island, and although this shows the ...

Sure, tropical breezes and icy mai tais are lovely. But if you’re a writer of thrillers, mysteries or gothic romance, there are few settings more delightfully and deeply unsettling than an island.

LB Beistad is a writer and musician based in Nashville, TN. Her love of gaming began with her cousin introducing her to Banjo Kazooie and Jak and Daxter when she was five years old. Since then, she ...

In "Somewhere in Crime," Mackinac Island is gripped by movie mania in 1979, thanks to the fact that “Hollywood was coming to our tiny island in Northern Michigan to film a movie starring Christopher ...