GO TO your bookshelf, assuming you have one, and pull out a hardcover book. Is the cut edge smooth? Try another until you spot rough-edged pages. Now ask yourself: does this book impress you more than ...

I know that I should know better than to believe what I read on Twitter before checking it out for myself, but I recently saw speculation that publishers were phasing out deckle edged books and a ...

Now in its fourth year, the Deckle Edge Literary Festival was organized to celebrate Southern writing. Its unusual name is a reference to the irregular edge of a sheet of paper after it is removed ...