Literature is alive and vital in DeKalb and the Rockford area. I learned this after interviewing five authors for WNIJ's Summer Book Series, which airs every Friday in June.
This is the first such series by WNIJ News since I started hosting Morning Edition in 1997 and, to be honest, none of us knew anything about the authors who lived here. The only thing we knew was this: The books we wanted for this series should be the kind you'd want to read while on vacation.
