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Why you should know about Ann Petry, one of the first major Black woman fiction writers
The Bulletin via Yahoo News· 1 year agoWATERFORD — While some Connecticut authors are still well known, including Mark Twain and Harriet...
Author Ann Petry gets spotlight at panel discussion in Waterford
The Day, New London, Conn. via Yahoo News· 1 year agoFeb. 11—"She was the first Black woman to sell over a million copies of a book," said José B. Gonzalez, a poet and English professor at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy, in his description of the ...
How Online Book Clubs Transformed Reading Groups — And What's Lost When You Don't Meet IRL
HuffPost via Yahoo News· 1 year agoOver the last couple of weeks, I took in Ann Petry’s “The Street.” I got it from my local public...
14 Classic Book Adaptations I Would Like To See That Aren’t Jane Austen
BuzzFeed via Yahoo News· 2 years agoListen, I LOVE Jane Austen, and I love Jane Austen adaptations. Especially if they involve handsome...
Old Saybrook celebrates MLK Day through public art and a remembrance of King's legacy
The Day, New London, Conn. via Yahoo News· 1 year agoJan. 16—OLD SAYBROOK — The message that David Addams had for about 50 people gathered here on Martin Luther King Jr. Day was that "we tend to think of Dr. King in a very limited way" but his ...
Leila Mottley on Jesmyn Ward, 'Song of Solomon,' and The Books That Everyone Should Read
Elle via Yahoo News· 2 months agoShelf Life: Leila MottleyILLUSTRATION BY YOUSRA ATTIA Welcome to Shelf Life, ELLE.com’s books...
Caroline Kepnes on Parker Posey, 'The Western Coast,' and the Book That Sealed a Friendship
Elle via Yahoo News· 1 year agoShelf Life: Caroline KepnesPORTRAIT BY Scott Joseph Anthony / ILLUSTRATION BY YOUSRA ATTIA Welcome...
Their family members were tortured and killed. Now these CT residents seek to commemorate the 1990s...
Hartford Courant via Yahoo News· 1 year agoAlma Huric of Hartford remembers July 11, 1995. “The Serb forces gathered up all the men and boys within their reach, tortured them, killed them, then buried them in mass graves around the Srebrenica ...
Licking Heights High School releases 2022-23 first quarter honor roll
Newark Advocate via Yahoo News· 2 years agoLicking Heights High School has released its First Quarter Honor Roll for the 2022-23 school year....