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Actor, writer, producer Samm-Art Williams, who made it from Burgaw to Broadway, dies
The Wilmington Star-News· 2 days agoSamm-Art Williams, a Tony- and Emmy-nominated writer, actor and producer who grew up in the Pender...
Book Club: Discuss ‘James,’ by Percival Everett, With Us
New York Times· 6 days agoFor The Book Review Podcast’s May book club, we’ll talk about “James,” Percival Everett’s radical reimagining of “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.”
‘The Fresh Prince Of Bel-Air’ Producer And Playwright Samm-Art Williams Dies At 78
Blavity via Yahoo News· 21 hours agoAward-winning playwright, actor, director and The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air executive producer...
The week's bestselling books, May 19
LA Times via Yahoo News· 1 day ago(Berkley: $29) A pair of opposites with the wrong thing in common connect. 2. James by Percival Everett (Doubleday: $28) An action-packed reimagining of...
Quarry Farm, Mark Twain's Elmira summer home, nets major grant. How money will be used.
The Star Gazette via Yahoo News· 22 hours ago"Quarry Farm is one of America’s premier literary landmarks and is in urgent need of restoration,"...
A Right-Wing Counter-Hegemony
The New Republic via Yahoo News· 4 hours agoHis word-salad-spinner speeches are occasions where you might expect a random canonical character like Huck Finn or Hamlet (What a loser!) to surface, or...
Why your cluttered desk might be the key to success in the workplace
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 2 days agoJane Austen just needed a small walnut tripod table adorned with nothing but a quill and a pot of...
Percival Everett’s new book ‘James’ revisits ‘Huckleberry Finn.’
The Florence Times-Daily· 5 days agoCHICAGO — I’ve had difficult interviews before. I’ve interviewed Lou Reed, who may be the most notoriously difficult interview subject of the past half century. (It went badly.) I once
Quarry Farm Foundation receives $50K grant for restoration efforts
WETM Elmira via Yahoo News· 2 days agoELMIRA, N.Y. (WETM) – The Quarry Farm Foundation has announced its receipt of a $50,000 grant to...
Fresh Prince producer dead weeks before his hit play Home returns to Broadway
The US Sun· 2 days agoFRESH Prince of Bel-Air executive producer Samm-Art Williams has died at the age of 78. The Tony...
