Read It and Reap: Historical fiction gems, from Anne Frank to Zorrie
By Ann Connery Frantz
Historical fiction is often the genre readers discover in junior high or high school, where they may begin to devour favorite authors of the period they enjoy. There is plenty of good literature from which to choose. Historical fiction is a great lead-in to biographies and period histories.
World War II and the Jewish extermination remain topics of huge interest across several genres. There are the classics, like Anne Frank’s “Diary of a Young Girl,” and psychotherapist and Holocaust survivor Viktor Frankl’s “Man’s Search for Meaning,” prominent among them. Books like John Hersey’s “Hiroshima,” Corrie Ten Boom’s “The Hiding Place” and Joseph Heller’s “Catch 22” also stirred readers.
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Book lovers, never fear. COVID-19 won’t defeat the 16th annual Newburyport Literary Festival (NLF), which will take place as a live, online streaming event Friday, April 23 to Sunday, April 25.
To bring this year’s events to the public, the festival will once again partner with A Mighty Blaze, a social media initiative created by authors Jenna Blum and Caroline Leavitt to help promote other authors’ new books during the continued pandemic,
While everyone will miss the joy and excitement of the in-person festival, organizers are taking advantage of the online format to feature authors from Newburyport and around the world, from “Bel Canto” author Ann Patchett, who will participate from her home in Tennessee, and Kim Johnson, who will ring in from Oregon, to British mystery writers Ruth Ware, Elly Griffiths and Dorothy Koomson, who will all join from the UK.
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A Mighty Blaze Continues to Build
Year-old social media initiative promotes authors By Claire Kirch | Mar 11, 2021
A year ago this week as bookstores began closing their doors to in-person traffic and publishers started canceling author events, A Mighty Blaze was lit on social media. Its purpose, co-founders Caroline Leavitt and Jenna Blum told
PW last March, was to connect readers with the authors of new adult releases by traditional publishers whose tours had been canceled due to the pandemic.
“We’re two technophobe female novelists in yoga pants trying to save authors from canceled tours and indie bookstores from being shuttered and we’re doing it every Tuesday,” they said.
Get to know the Studio Museum in Harlem’s latest batch of artists in residence in an
online open-studio session. The prestigious 11-month residency, which began in 1968, gives emerging and midcareer artists the chance to create and exhibit their work by providing a studio space and a stipend. This year’s artists, Widline Cadet, Genesis Jerez, Texas Isaiah and Jacolby Satterwhite, had a slightly different arrangement, thanks to the pandemic. They will speak about their works in progress and participate in a round-table discussion. This event is free, but registration is required.
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