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Nature News: Orchids, the fairies of the plant world
Portsmouth Herald via Yahoo News· 8 months agoI didn’t really have an opinion about orchids, other than knowing you have to be really into houseplants to keep them alive, until reading “The Orchid...
Columbus-born authors included in nominees for 81st annual Ohioana Book Awards
The Columbus Dispatch via Yahoo News· 2 years agoThirty Ohio authors have been nominated for the 81st annual Ohioana Book Awards, to be announced in...
Book Talk: Dan Chaon’s novel ‘Sleepwalk’ is mind-bending experience
Akron Beacon Journal via Yahoo News· 2 years agoThere are surprises on every page of Dan Chaon’s terrific, darkly funny new novel “Sleepwalk.”...
A rare wild flower is the star of the Florida swamp. But can the ghost orchid survive?
Miami Herald via Yahoo News· 8 months agoIn “The Orchid Thief,” author Susan Orlean wrote of a “phantom” flower hidden deep in the swamps of...
Why One of the Weirdest Adaptations Ever Is Actually Perfect
The Daily Beast via Yahoo News· 1 month agoPhoto Illusttration by Luis G. Rendon/The Daily Beast/Max/Paramount+/Everett Collection/GettySusan...
Column: Here's why you can't 'own' your ebooks
LA Times via Yahoo Finance· 1 year agoPublishers and authors rightly fear that they'll lose out financially from the digitization of books; but it's also quite possible that, properly...
Chelsea Boes: Eliza the rooster and the suburban phenomenon of chicken-mania
Asheville Citizen-Times via Yahoo News· 4 months agoIt is a truth universally acknowledged that an adventurous soul in possession of a sizable backyard must also be in want of chickens. I’m talking about chicken-mania. You can read about the ...
Roger Angell, Legendary Baseball Writer, Dies at 101
The Wrap via Yahoo News· 2 years agoRoger Angell, who was a sports journalist for The New Yorker for over six decades, died in his Manhattan home on Friday. He was 101. Angell died of...
A rare 'Super' ghost orchid is blooming at Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary. Here's how to see it
Naples Daily News via Yahoo News· 2 years agoFireworks of another kind have begun in the wilds of Southwest Florida. Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary in...
Wimpy kids, dark hours and dog man: What Los Angeles is reading as the library turns 150
LA Times via Yahoo News· 1 year agoAs the Los Angeles Public Library celebrates 150 years, the city's readers are back in force with...