Month: August 2024

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 […]