Literature
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Winfrey announces new book club pick and launches ‘The Oprah Podcast’
Dec 03, 2024 8:00 am - Oprah Winfrey has a new book club pick and a new platform to talk books and other topics of the day.
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New chapters: Biking books serve up armchair adventuresDec 01, 2024 4:00 am - Inclement weather keeping you indoors? Recent biking books, co-reviewed with others, serve up armchair adventures and thoughts on safety as potential stocking stuffers for yourself and others.
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‘Dead Air’ tells history of night Orson Welles unleashed fake Martian invasion
Nov 27, 2024 6:37 pm - Long before Donald Trump used the term “fake news,” Orson Welles mastered the art of actual fake news. Welles’ 1938 radio adaptation of H.G. Wells’ “The War of the Worlds” is the focus of William Elliott Hazelgrove’s “Dead Air: The Night That Orson Welles Terrified America.”
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Book Review: British novelist Naomi Wood is out with an astonishingly good short story collection
Nov 25, 2024 12:12 pm - Naomi Wood, an English author not yet well known in the U.S., has written three historical novels, including the well-regarded “Mrs. Hemingway,” about the four wives of E...
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Book Review: ‘How to Think Like Socrates’ leaves readers with questions
Nov 19, 2024 9:24 am - The lessons of Socrates have never really gone out of style, but if there’s ever a perfect time to revisit the ancient philosopher, now is it. In “How to Think Like Socra...
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Arthur Frommer, travel guide innovator, has died at 95
Nov 19, 2024 7:13 am - Arthur Frommer, whose "Europe on 5 Dollars a Day" guidebooks revolutionized leisure travel by convincing average Americans to take budget vacations abroad, has died. He was 95.
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Cary author to host readings of her book ‘Santa’s Twin’Nov 18, 2024 10:01 pm - Families can enjoy a live reading of Kristine Ensor’s “Santa’s Twin” this holiday season at the following locations: noon to 1 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 30, at Santa’s House ...
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Book Review: Chris Myers looks back on his career in ‘That Deserves a Wow’
Nov 18, 2024 5:05 pm - There are few sports journalists working today with a resume as broad as Chris Myers. Which is why it’s a little surprising that his memoir, “That Deserves a Wow,” isn’t more revealing.
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Giving thanks for birds and birding in generalNov 18, 2024 12:11 pm - Birds give us so much, enriching our lives almost every day when we take time to notice. This is my Thankful List, and just like any other list involving birds, it’s sure to grow.
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Mini Comic Con in Lincolnshire draws all kinds of charactersNov 17, 2024 12:56 am - The annual Mini Comic Con at the Vernon Area Public Library in Lincolnshire was a family-friendly celebration of pop culture and fandoms, with attendees encouraged to come in costume.