was in Michigan last week, heading to a warehouse to sign copies of his new novel "The Cardturner." A piece of his heart was back in Portland, where he spent a good chunk of the last six months ...

"She was squeezed in the black suits." Coded message? Fashion faux pas? This surreally poetic line is actually part of the "bridge gibberish" learned by Alton Richards, the hero of Louis Sachar's new ...

The most important thing to know about Louis Sachar's new novel about bridge is that you don't need to know how to play the card game. Not yet, anyway. See, Alton will teach you. That's 17-year-old ...

“I realize that reading about a bridge game isn't exactly thrilling,” 17-year-old narrator Alton tells readers early on. Luckily, this funny and thoughtful novel is as much about building ...