Friends and fellow authors have spoken out on Salman Rushdie's behalf during a rally on the steps of the main branch of the New York Public Library.

FILE - Julie Dash attends the New York Film Critics Circle Awards on Jan. 3, 2017, in New York. Dash's work will be featured in Turner Classic Movies' four-month Women Make Film series, airing every Tuesday night through December. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File)Associated Press Film Writers Lindsey Bahr and Jake Coyle pick some programming highlights from Turner Classic Movies' four-month Women Make Film series, airing every Tuesday night through December. In her 1976 film (airing Sept. 15 on TCM), Kopple intimately documents a grueling, 13-month coal miner's strike in a small Kentucky town. They just thought I was a funny little girl who carried a tape recorder and a camera. The film won Kopple her first Oscar.

DETROIT Detroit is being transformed. The art scene, the food scene and now the literary scene, thanks to the efforts of local journalist Anna Clark. So Clark got together with fellow writers and book enthusiasts like Calhoun and created Literary Detroit, a place for publishers to promote their authors and for readers to discover them. Literary Detroit hosts distinctive author events, ghost libraries and seasonal book swaps around the city. Creating the connection between author and reader, Clark, Calhoun and Literary Detroit are reinventing the book culture in the heart of Detroit.