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'We can never out-give our mother.' Columnist Kirk Neely shares poetry for Mother’s Day
Spartanburg Herald-Journal via Yahoo News· 1 year agoMy mother loved to read, and she enjoyed stories and poetry. Four years after Mama died in 2001, I...
Poet Billy Collins on shedding New York and finding contentment as a Florida Man
Palm Beach Daily News via Yahoo News· 2 years agoI often write about our state’s inexhaustible tales of “Florida Man” — that guy with a special...
13 top reads from authors this fall (Kingsolver, King, Irving and more)
Pioneer Press, St. Paul, Minn. via Yahoo News· 2 years agoAs the new publishing season rolls along, here’s a look at books by some of the big-name authors of popular and literary fiction, as well as poetry from Billy Collins, quips from the late P.J ...
A Pulitzer Prize-winning art critic will give a talk at the Museum of Fine Arts
Tampa Bay Times, St. Petersburg, Fla. via Yahoo News· 1 year agoThe Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg’s new speaker series is underway, and the lineup includes Pulitzer Prize-winning art critic Jerry Saltz. Saltz, senior art critic for New York Magazine ...
Book Talk: Bestselling poet Billy Collins to speak in St. Petersburg
Tampa Bay Times, St. Petersburg, Fla. via Yahoo News· 1 year agoPsychologist and author Ashley Vigil-Otero will discuss her book “The Self-Confidence Workbook for Teens” at 3:30 p.m. March 19 at the Oxford Exchange, 420 W Kennedy Blvd., Tampa. Tickets $5 ...
Signs of the times: Geese overhead, visitations to attend, challenges getting dressed
The Des Moines Register via Yahoo News· 3 months agoIt’s March. I know this for a fact because Canada geese that survived folks shooting at them over...
42 new books for holiday gifts in 2022, from Wisconsin snakes to Wakanda
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel via Yahoo News· 2 years agoMake someone richer: Give them a book. For your gift-giving and self-gifting pleasure this holiday...
Cathleen Schine on Sigrid Nunez, 'Pride and Prejudice,' and The Book That Grew On Her
Elle via Yahoo News· 3 months agoShelf Life: Cathleen SchinePORTRAIT BY Karen Tapia / ILLUSTRATION BY YOUSRA ATTIA Welcome to Shelf...
Best Bookstore in Palm Springs hopes to offer alternative to Rancho Mirage writers fest
The Desert Sun via Yahoo News· 9 months agoBookworms in the Coachella Valley may have two festivals to choose from to scratch their reading...
Turn off your phone. Go outside. Pay attention. And pray. | Opinion
The Tennessean via Yahoo News· 1 year agoLife should be pretty simple. Breathe in, breathe out. Only it’s not. I am increasingly out of sync...