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When Dr. Belinda George, principal of Homer Drive Elementary in Beaumont, Texas, discovered that a lot of the kids under her care didn’t have anyone to tuck them in, read them a bedtime story and tell them they were loved, she decided…
We’re zooming towards National Poetry Month, which runs all of April and gives us yet another reason to celebrate poetry and the people who make them. Even if it isn’t officially poetry month in your country, it seems a terrific time to…
(Editor’s note: This review comes from Ben Terrall, a freelance writer based in San Francisco, California, whose work has appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle, the San Francisco Bay View, In These Times, CounterPunch, and Noir City. Terrall last wrote for January…
One can’t help but wonder what Gabriel García Márquez would be thinking about the fact that his classic novel, One Hundred Years of Solitude, will go into production as a Spanish-language series. García Márquez, who died in 2014 at the age of…
Beginning June 1, the prestigious Booker Prize — which for the last 18 yers has been known as the Man Booker under the sponsorship of investment management firm Man Group — will drop it’s double-barreled name. Back in January, the Man Group…
Fashion icon and designer Karl Lagerfeld, who died Tuesday at the age of 85, had a lot of books. “I hate leisure, except reading,” he once told Women’s Wear Daily. And he walked the walk. He had an extensive library that included…
Excited to finally be reading Figuring, out this month from Pantheon. The author is the brilliant Maria Popova who “writes about what she reads” on Brain Pickings, which is more than a blog, but rather like the elegant connections from an admirable…
Depending on your perspective, it’s been a difficult few weeks for publishing. Or it’s been a golden one. Certainly author tricks, hijinks and missteps have been everywhere, along with scandals and cups of urine. (Wait. What? Never mind. Keep reading.) Front and…
Stephen King’s novella Mile 81 (Simon & Schuster) heralded in the arrival (n full) of the e-book era back when it was first (electronically) published in 2011. Mile 81 wasn’t excerpted from something else. It wasn’t a reprint. It was an ebook,…
What would you risk to achieve your ambition? Would you risk the lives of your family and colleagues to get out of a financial hole? Would you risk all for the next big deal? How far is too far? Layers of Deception…