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Art & Culture: How to be the Old Lion by Terry P. Tanner

September 10, 2024 admin 0

Terry P. Tanner’s How to Be the Old Lion is meant to be a roadmap for navigating life’s challenges with confidence and purpose. Drawing from real-life examples and lessons learned over a lifetime, Tanner provides readers with the tools needed to overcome common pitfalls and embrace a life of intentionality. With an emphasis on spiritual and ethical principles, this book serves as a guide to living fearlessly. The core message of How to Be the […]

Fiction: Investigating the Kennedy Assassination: Why Was Kennedy Killed? by Michael J. Deeb and Robert Lockwood Mills

August 25, 2024 admin 0

If there was ever a week where we had enough Kennedy, it was this one. With the son of a former presidential hopeful and the nephew of one of America’s best-loved presidents of all time making headlines for forging deals with political devils, it’s easy to say, “enough already” with the Kennedy’s. Yet, for all their faults, Michael J. Deeb and Robert Lockwood Mills can’t be called on the carpet for the timing of their […]

Teach Me How to Whisper Receives Major Romanian Literary Prize

August 25, 2024 admin 0

A new book of poetry by an American writer of Albanian origin, Gjekë Marinaj, has received Romania’s Mihai Eminescu International Poetry Prize. Conferred by Romania’s Mihai Eminescu International Academy, the literary award honors Marinaj’s collection Teach Me How to Whisper: Horses and Other Poems, published by Syracuse University Press. The award was presented on June 14 in Craiova, Romania, in a ceremony held at the Gloriae Art Gallery. Teach Me How to Whisper is the […]

Non-Fiction: The Chronicles of Mania: The Inventor, the Dreamer, and the Madman! by Brian W. Walker

August 7, 2024 admin 0

Brian W. Walker is a an inventor and innovator who is responsible for more than 800 inventions brings the heartbreak and triumph of mania to life in The Chronicles of Mania. The book is a deeply personal memoir that chronicles how Walker’s life was shaped by the relentless grip of undiagnosed bipolar disorder. The Chronicles of Mania offers a compelling narrative of resilience, creativity, and the pursuit of dreams. Author Brian Walker’s entire life has […]

Art & Culture: 100 Things Duran Duran Fans Should Know & Do During This Life: a New, Quirky Guide to Nostalgia from 1978 to Danse Macabre by Sandy Lender

August 3, 2024 admin 0

We were a little dismayed to learn that August 10 is Duran Duran Appreciation Day. We’re not making this up. We were maybe even more dismayed to discover that Duran Duran’s 16th studio album, Danse Macabre, was released just last year. (And yes: if the name is twigging some non-Duranish memory for you, we’ll remind you that Stephen King released an important work of non-fiction under that same title in 1981. Danse Macabre is also […]

Rethinking the Classics

July 21, 2024 News Editor 0

Do you think you know what makes a classic novel… er… classic? The Washington Post thinks maybe we should think again. WaPo recently asked readers of their Book Club newsletter “which classic books are overrated and which unsung novels should be considered top-tier, we didn’t predict the level of enthusiasm that would accompany the responses”. Among those that some readers thought should get the toss were iconic books like J.D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the […]

Thinking About Reading About Appalachia? Keep Looking

July 20, 2024 News Editor 0

It’s been (ahem) an eventful few weeks. We won’t go into it deeply in this space. Just yet. But one thing that brightened the last week or so was the constant stream of people we noted on social media compiling lists — and pointing us at others — where one could read “real books” on Appalachia, “better than the POS one” by the man who is now a vice-presidential hopeful. All right then. Bookriot said […]

Presumed Innocent an Apple TV+ Limited Series

June 24, 2024 Tony Buchsbaum 0

Opening statement: Presumed Innocent is a novel by Scott Turow, a blockbuster bestseller in the second half of 1987. It was about an attorney named Rusty Sabich who is accused of murdering his colleague, Carolyn Polhemus. Carolyn was also his lover, despite the fact that Rusty was married to Barbara and the father of their son. As the novel unfolds, battling lawyers and their motives are revealed, evidence is misplaced, colleagues betray one another, sex […]

Dayhouse Studio Launches Magazine Focused on Nature, Health, and Sustainability

June 24, 2024 admin 0

Dayhouse Studio, a health-focused biophilic interior design firm, has launched Daylight Living, a new online magazine where design, nature, health, and sustainability all come together. Dayling Living will cover a wide range of topics, including biophilic design, the evidence-based insights behind health benefits from nature-centric design, self-care and sustainable interior practices. In the first issue, the feature article is “Healing by Design.” It explores diverse applications of biophilic design principles to create a home environment that […]

Recognizing Literary References

April 23, 2024 News Editor 0

The New York Times does it best, of course. What lines from poems and plays have fueled the imaginations of more contemporary writers? Take this 12 question, multiple choice quiz to see how you rank. And prepared to be amazed. The thing that astonished me the most comes early on, in question 2: Chinua Achebe’s 1958 novel “Things Fall Apart,” Joan Didion’s 1968 essay collection “Slouching Towards Bethlehem” and Robert B. Parker’s 1983 thriller “The […]