Joan Didion's new collection of old essays holds the key to her 'shimmer'
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Black flags to baseball: 4 writers offer true tales in Nonfiction Author Series
Naples Daily News· 18 hours agoCost for the series is $100 for Friends members and $140 for nonmembers. Eric Jay Dolin, whose most...
How Ion Media Scored for Investors by Bucking TV’s Conventional Wisdom
Variety· 13 hours agoAbout 15 years ago, Ion Media chairman-CEO Brandon Burgess set out to play “Moneyball” with a group...
Penn State professor Toby Thompson reflects on latest nonfiction book, ‘Fired On: Targeting Western...
Penn State Collegian· 2 days agoNow an associate professor of English at Penn State, Thompson’s body of work recently added its...
The top 10 audiobooks on Audible.com
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West Des Moines Library announces event with author Debra Landwehr Engle
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5 books not to miss: Catherine E. McKinley's The African Lookbook, The Doctors Blackwell'
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What Were We Thinking? : Carlos Lozada On The Trump Era : The NPR Politics Podcast
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Film sheds light on little-known codebreaker from Indiana
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Lizzie Borden’s Notoriety Is This Home’s Selling Point
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