Rhode Island
(William Morrow)
The week before Halloween seemed the ideal moment to pick up the 617-page epic horror novel “Plain Bad Heroines” by Emily M. Danforth. The tangled story toggles between a cursed Rhode Island boarding school for girls during the early 1900s and present day when a group of queer women return to film a movie about the school’s fabled history. Danforth writes with humor and is at her brilliant best with vivid female character portrayals, who are as wild and unpredictable as the untamed Rhode Island shoreline.
South Carolina
One of the most compelling books I read this year was “Wandering in Strange Lands: A Daughter of the Great Migration Reclaims Her Roots.” Morgan Jerkins takes readers through South Carolina and the Low Country as she embarks on a reverse migration to trace 300 years of her family’s history, much of which has been obscured by cultural erasure and lack of documentation. Through research and conversations about land displacem
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Innovation comes easiest when you’re authentically you, Esty has realized. Without dedicated soul-searching, though, your own voice can be muffled, or maybe you can’t hear it at all.
The first-generation Dominican American’s newest single is the result of her commitment to a never-ending survey of the self. On “Holy Ghost $$$,” she raps, “quiero salvación, no la fama,” and it isn’t aspirational. Esty is living that line.
“I’d rather be good spiritually and be a good person and not step on people’s toes and do things the right way than have fame,” she says. “Fame is nothing. It matters more that you’re a good person and you do right by others.”
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Prince Royce is counting his blessings in 2020. The bachata crooner just broke the record for the most weeks in the number-one spot of
Billboard s Tropical Airplay chart with the song Carita de Inocente. I m shocked, it was a pleasant surprise for me, he tells People CHICA. Seeing that this bachata song broke [the record] is an honor. It s something that represents my culture, my genre. It feels good to do something you love and see that it s becoming part of history and a legacy.
Doing a tribute to bachata icon Juan Luis Guerra with Leslie Grace at the Latin Grammys was also a highlight of his 2020, and he looks forward to a possible collaboration with the Dominican American bachata princess. I really enjoy working with Leslie, she has a lot of talent, he says. She comes from a similar upbringing, I ve met her parents. I think we should work on something in the future.