Kathleen Jamie on why book festivals are the wrong target for climate activists
I believe that the total chaos we find ourselves in has its roots in ecological collapse. People’s unconscious fears are manifesting themselves in defensiveness, aggression...
A tragic story on the edge of the Gilded Age
J. KEMPER CAMPBELL For the Journal Star “Courtesy of Hamilton and Sargent: A Story of Mystery and Tragedy on the Frontier of the Gilded Age”...
“Divergent” author Veronica Roth headlines the Columbus Book Festival
Margarete Quamme | Special to The Columbus Dispatch The Columbus Book Festival is in its second year and bigger than ever, with more than a...
Radical Joy
When Lynne Thompson received the news in 2021 that she had been named Los Angeles poet laureate, she wondered if the email was an elaborate...
Lana Del Rey’s deep love for Sylvia Plath
(Source: Far Out / YouTube still image) Sun., July 7, 2024, 9:00 p.m., United Kingdom Lana Del Rey burst onto the mainstream in 2011 with...
Margaret Walker’s lost book surfaces
For nearly 90 years, a groundbreaking, unpublished novel by the legendary Black Renaissance author lay quietly in the archives. Margaret Walker is perhaps best known...
Make reading part of your summer adventures
Darcie Caswell, Youth Services Coordinator at Central Rappahannock Regional Library The solstice has just passed and we have Independence Day this week. There’s no denying...
Novelist reflects on his death after serious neck injury
Gail Godwin was born in Birmingham in 1937 while her parents were visiting family, but I still refer to her as an Alabama writer. Godwin...
Artist of the week: Sejal Akerkar
Sejal Akerkar is a poet and writer who graduated from Sammamish High School in Bellevue in 2023. Akerkar self-published a collection of poetry titled “Walking...
Winners of the 2024 Boston Globe-Horn Book Award announced
The winners of this year’s Boston Globe-Horn Book Award include Do you remember? by Sydney Smith, Remember us by Jacqueline Woodson, The Mona Lisa disappears...