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‘Federer: Twelve Final Days’ Review: A Partial Backstage Pass to the Tennis Great’s Retirement Party
Variety· 1 day agoIn his classic 1994 essay “How Tracy Austin Broke My Heart,” David Foster Wallace pondered why so...
27 Best Memoirs: Unforgettable Stories That Inspire
Biography via Yahoo News· 3 days agoOur list of the best memoirs includes first-person insight into someone else’s life, with some of the best by Michelle Obama, Anthony Bourdain, and more.
‘Some of us really wanted to smash imperialism’: Cher Tan honed her defiant creativity in...
The Conversation· 3 days agoIn her debut essay collection, Peripathetic: Notes on (un)belonging, Cher Tan turns her maverick attention to the possibility and power of resistance. Tan’s essays rise out ...
Complicated childhood in New Orleans creates a writer | DON NOBLE
The Tuscaloosa News via Yahoo News· 3 days agoBut author Silverstein was guilty of bad behavior. Should we shun the book? Should J. K. Rowling’s...
Meet Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt's 6 children
Business Insider via Yahoo News· 3 days agoJolie revealed in a March 2020 Time essay for International Women's Day that she "spent the last two months in and out of surgeries with my eldest...
What’s open and closed on Juneteenth 2024
Lexington Clipper-Herald· 22 hours agoJuneteenth, which commemorates the end of slavery in the United States, became the newest federal holiday in 2021. Here’s what’s open and closed on...
Learn the write stuff at QC conference
WHBF Davenport via Yahoo News· 13 hours agoThe David R. Collins Writers’ Conference (formerly known as the Mississippi Valley Writers’ Conference) will return to the campus of Augustana College in...
20 books by Black authors you should read this Juneteenth
Fox News via Yahoo News· 22 hours agoHer mother headed an organization of Black Women physicians, so becoming a doctor was a path she’d...
An ex-talent agent's journey from Kashmir to Hollywood (and 32 addresses along the way)
LA Times via Yahoo News· 3 days agoThe story of why Priyanka Mattoo quit her job as a Hollywood agent to pursue a career in writing has as many twists and turns as her literary debut, the memoir 'Bird Milk & Mosquito Bones.'
These Must-Reads Will Give You a Better Understanding of Juneteenth
Good Housekeeping via Yahoo News· 2 days agoThe author uses her knowledge as a historian and her experience as a Black Texas native to enlighten...
