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Viola Davis leaves it all on the page—from her beginnings in South Carolina as the fifth of six children born in a sharecropper’s shack to acclaim as an actor, producer, and philanthropist. I was so moved by this book that I just had to share it with our entire OBC audience.” $...
we really had a lot going on. After all, we packed up all our stuff, put it in storage, moved to a long-term hotel, found someone who could board both of our cats, cleaned out and fixed up the house in Winthrop, sold that house, looked endlessly for another house in Vermont...
Steingruber may have felt he had good reason to be miffed. After all he had published the volume in installments at his own expense and made sure that the Margrave’s monogram (and that of Carolina Frederica, his wife) in building form appeared in the span above the roman arch on the ti...
It takes place in a crumbling near-future world that bears a distinct resemblance to our own, beginning with the violence of collapse, loosely narrating the escape of the album’s unnamed protagonists on a pedal-boat swan, as they trade doom for danger on their way to a future home built...
"South Carolina in my novel seems like a nice place…until it doesn’t. 'Bad Blood' gives the history behind the events that force Cora to see her new home in a different light." 9. The Mismeasure of Man by Stephen Jay Gould Credit: W.W. Norton & Company "I read Douglass, Jacob...
And power players have to at least respect Caesars’ place in the sports betting hierarchy when it comes to limits on wagers. Caesars offers something beneficial to all who wager – and in an industry that tends to favor one type of bettor over another, that’s a massive benefit to ...
characters with well-conceived fictional creations into a seamless narrative of a fascinating time and place in American history. Ghosts of Walden convincingly evokes the celebrated past of a famous American town, but the voyages, both inner and outer, that its principal characters take are ...
of racial reckoning this summer in the nation, i yearned for another interview where she could be asked for her take on the national conversation. the book has that ability to look back but also place this woman in our times. the reason the book connected this year is not hard to ...
How do we understand the passing of time, and our place in it? How do we come to terms with the certain knowledge that our lives will end? Although these are questions without answers, Gardner, in a poem like "Entreaty to the Trees" finds a way forward through the recognition of the...