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Brig. Gen. ‘Bud’ Anderson, the last of the American WWII triple aces, dies at 102
KSLA-TV Shreveport· 10 hours agoHe flew 116 combat missions, destroying 16 and 1/4 enemy aircraft in aerial combat and another on...
Judith ‘Judy’ Oppenheimer, veteran journalist and author, dies
Baltimore Sun via Yahoo News· 2 days agoJudith “Judy” Oppenheimer, a veteran journalist and author whose biography of writer Shirley Jackson gained her wide acclaim, died of Parkinson disease and bone cancer May ...
Picturing William Faulkner in Verse: A Dream Come True
The New York Sun· 2 days agoAn illustrated biography of William Faulkner is something I’ve often wished for, with drawings that...
Pianist Inna Faliks traces musical odyssey from Soviet Ukraine via Faustian fantasy
NPR· 8 hours agoIn turn, the new works draw a thread between the different elements of Faliks' own multifaceted ...
Who Was Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy, Really?
New York Times· 16 hours agoIn “Once Upon a Time,” Elizabeth Beller examines the life and death of the woman who was best known for marrying John F. Kennedy Jr. Louis Bayard’s...
No Comfort | Fintan O’Toole
New York Review of Books· 5 days agoIn his best-selling biography of Elon Musk, Walter Isaacson tries to explain how a man who attempts such “epic feats” can also be “an asshole.” How...
‘Limonov: The Ballad’ Review: Ben Whishaw Stars in a Portrait of a Radical That Is All Swagger and...
Variety· 1 day agoThe second is that, as imagined in this adaptation of Emmanuel Carrère’s 2015 fictionalized ...
Amazon's Massive Book Sale Ends Tonight: Save Up to 80% on Bestsellers
Entertainment Tonight· 3 hours agoReading a new book beachside, poolside or during a summer trip is one of the best ways to soak up...
A fallen NYPD detective gets the hero’s funeral he deserved — 100 years later
WPIX New York City, NY via Yahoo News· 2 hours agoGREEN-WOOD CEMETERY, Brooklyn (PIX11) — He was a detective killed in the line of duty, but he was...
A new biography of West Coast longshoremen’s leader Harry Bridges
World Socialist Web Site· 3 days agoWest Coast longshoremen’s leader Harry Bridges (1901-1990) was among the most prominent American...
