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FRED FIRST: It Was Twenty Years Ago Today
3+ hour, 1+ min ago (450+ words) It felt less like steering my own ship than being moved by winds from a source I could not name towards a destination I would only know when at last it appeared from beyond the curve of the distant horizon....
Recent Release, "The Boy Next Door's Secrets," from Fulton Books Author Clement Gibson Unveils a Gripping Tale of Hidden Truths That Threaten to Shatter a Quiet Community
1+ hour, 34+ min ago (353+ words) PR. com Clement Gibson has completed a new book, "The Boy Next Door's Secrets" that follows the story of eighteen-year-old Nina Anderson as she escapes her overprotective parents and their mysterious "family business" to seek freedom and clarity in the…...
Book Excerpt: Philadelphia " A Walk Through History
1+ hour, 38+ min ago (341+ words) Home " Arts & Culture " Book Excerpt: Philadelphia " A Walk Through History Pick up your copy of Philadelphia: A Walk Through History online or from your favorite brick & mortar book shop. One of the founding tenets of The Philadelphia Citizen is to…...
A Band-Aid, a Trivial Pursuit card, postcards from 1931 Berlin: All evidence of our shared humanity
2+ hour, 20+ min ago (532+ words) When I first stumbled across the cache of lost bookmarks at my public library, I was killing time. Sifting through the dusty pile felt like being in on a delicious secret or traveling down a hidden passageway into a forgotten…...
Professor Gertrude Fester's memoir: Honouring the resilience of women in the anti-apartheid struggle
1+ hour, 11+ min ago (692+ words) Rethabile Nkhahle, adult librarian, Professor Gertrude Fester and Nadia Ismail, principal librarian, who organised the "Author's Talk". At a recent author's talk, Professor Gertrude Fester shared her story about her book Prison Notebook V2957/88 as a South African political detainee who…...
For young readers: All the attempts to restore the Ajanta caves from 19th century to present day
3+ hour, 34+ min ago (505+ words) Nukkad Naatak" review: Full marks for sincerity in film about the value of education Author origins: My grandmother and her way of mothering us by telling us stories made me a writer" The life of Puja: How a young woman…...
Great Books #1: Secrets of the Universe w/ Professor Jiang (Transcript)
1+ hour, 34+ min ago (1910+ words) PROFESSOR JIANG: What is a great book? What I want to show you in this class is that a great book is something that makes you fully human by revealing to you the secrets of the universe and the secrets…...
Writing About Life in America Before Roe v. Wade, in Fiction and in Memoir
2+ hour, 35+ min ago (1153+ words) Last fall, a mutual friend told Tracy Clark-Flory and Kate Schatz that they desperately needed to know each other. They both were feminist writers who lived in the Bay Area and had books coming out just a couple months apart…...
A Short History of America's Drowned Towns
2+ hour, 35+ min ago (588+ words) I ticked off the first of these boxes. That kept me safer than many. Still, I'd long ago learned to hide the fact that I grew up an atheist. A cadre of grade schoolers had taught me that this fatal…...
Lena Dunham celebrates memoir "Famesick" hitting #1 on "The New York Times" bestseller list
14+ hour, 34+ min ago (220+ words) All adventurous women do " write a bestselling book. Lena Dunham is celebrating her new memoir, Famesick, reaching the top spot on The New York Times bestseller list. The Girls creator took to her social media on Thursday to share a…...