A good memoir should be more than an autobiography and less than a confessional but contain elements of both. As a reader, I am less interested in being overwhelmed with family trauma and pathos except when it informs the greater tale being told. Quite often, it is the memoirs that feature an excess of pathos More
Lizette Epps, a prominent Reading community leader and advocate, won first place at the BookFest awards ceremony on April 6 for her debut book, “Our Voices: Little Stories Through a Latina Lens.” The BookFest Book Awards, an esteemed literary competition, recognized Epps’ work in the Non-fiction Category in Society & Social Sciences on Race, Class, […]
Stories are one of the most common threads that bind all of humanity together. Regardless of who you are, there are stories that define your childhood and possibly your adulthood.
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Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) joins Andrea Mitchell to discuss the critical issues facing current House Speaker Mike Johnson, as his fellow Republicans try to push him out over his efforts to pass Ukraine aid.
Those at the rally made clear they support "Full expansion now," which they frequently chanted, and not the Senate proposal, which its drafters have referred to as "expansion lite."
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NPR's Scott Simon talks with Caleb Carr, author of the best-selling novel, "The Alienist." Carr has written a memoir, reflecting on his life through the companionship of his scrappy rescue cat, Masha.
NPR's Scott Simon talks with Caleb Carr, author of the best-selling novel, "The Alienist." Carr has written a memoir, reflecting on his life through the companionship of his scrappy rescue cat, Masha.
In the funny, terrifying, colorful, oddly lovely, lovably odd "Dead Boy Detectives," premiering Thursday on Netflix, deceased putative teenagers Edwin (George Rexstrew) and Charles (Jayden Revri) investigate what's troubling troubled ghosts. Created by Neil Gaiman and Matt Wagner for DC Comics, the eponymous team was born on the pages of "The Sandman" in 1991 and made an appearance, played by much younger actors, in the third season of "Doom Patrol," the best of all superhero series. But the...
Salman Rushdie has been a marked man for nearly half his life. In 1989 Iran's leader Ayatollah Khomeini declared his novel, "The Satanic Verses," blasphemous, an insult to Islam, and called for the Indian-born writer's assassination. Rushdie went into hiding with around the clock police protection for 10 years. He eventually moved to the U.S. and thought he was safe. But in August 2022, as he was about to speak at a literary festival in Chautauqua, New York, Salman Rushdie was attacked by a...
Sumitomo Life Insurance Co. reduced its stake in Booking Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ:BKNG – Free Report) by 3.8% in the fourth quarter, according to the company in its most recent disclosure with the Securities & Exchange Commission. The firm owned 1,232 shares of the business services provider’s stock after selling 48 shares during the period. Sumitomo […]