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“Isn’t Willie Mays Wonderful?”
Esquire· 3 hours agoYes, you see him, even if you never saw him, Willie Mays turns on a fastball, anybody’s fastball, Koufax’s fastball, Gibson’s fastball, Drysdale’s...
In a 3-2 vote, Indian River School Board bans a book about banning books
TCPalm | Treasure Coast Newspapers via Yahoo News· 7 days agoRemoved books that she challenged include classics such as "The Bluest Eye" by Toni Morrison,...
Looking for Juneteenth celebrations? Indy has everything from jazz performances to boxing
IndyStar | The Indianapolis Star via Yahoo News· 6 days agoASL interpreters will be available. While the event is free, attendees are encouraged to reserve a...
Council Post: How Team Leaders Can Cause Team Division—And How To Stop It
Forbes· 2 days agoA good friend recently shared a story with me that's often credited to Kurt Vonnegut, the American...
Preview: Conroe ISD to hold hearing on books, including ‘Speak,’ ‘Slaughterhouse-Five’
Community Impact· 2 days agoAt the June 18 meeting, the Conroe ISD board of trustees will conduct a hearing and consider a Level...
This week’s bestsellers at Southern California’s independent bookstores
Los Angeles Daily News· 20 hours agoSee the top-selling releases among hardcover fiction and nonfiction, plus trade paperbacks for the...
Yup, Florida school board bans a book about banning books
Tampa Bay Times· 2 days agoThe Tallahassee Democrat explained that the Indian River County School Board voted 3-to-2 to ban a...
In Nicolette Polek’s ‘Bitter Water Opera,’ Finding Yourself Is a Spectral Affair - The Village Voice
The Village Voice· 5 days agoThis is the titular “bitter water,” a Jewish trial by ordeal discontinued around 70 AD. In her debut novel, Bitter Water Opera, Nicolette Polek, an acclaimed short story writer and recent graduate ...
Is now the right time to publish a novel by Louis-Ferdinand Céline?
The Economist· 6 days agoThe noise will never leave him, for it is Belgium in 1915, and Ferdinand has “caught the war in my...
Shortstop’s Son Redux | Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
Northwest Arkansas Democrat Gazette· 4 days agoMaybe one day you sit down at the Thanksgiving table and realize that these people who have fed you and clothed you and seen you off to be instructed in human enterprise have no knowledge of ...