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Using words to build bridges: Whately writers join national series of live-streamed presentations


Using words to build bridges: Whately writers join national series of live-streamed presentations
George Howe Colt at his home in Whately. Gazette file photo
Whately nonfiction writers George Howe Colt and Anne Fadiman are participating in next week’s “Write America” discussion. via Wikipedia
Published: 3/16/2021 2:16:59 PM
Can books play a role in helping to bridge the deep cultural and political divisions in our nation? There’s no easy answer to the question, but a national series of livestreamed conversations between writers is attempting to find out.
“Write America,” which began in February, features a weekly discussion between two or three writers and sometimes artists from other fields. The series has been created by veteran journalist, novelist and playwright Roger Rosenblatt, who teaches English and writing at Stony Brook University in New York. ....

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Imbolo Mbue's Book Recommendations


If you’ve read anything about Imbolo Mbue, you probably already know that she was inspired to start writing after plucking Toni Morrison’s
Song of Solomon from an Oprah’s Book Club picks shelf at a public library in Virginia. (She thought it would be a Biblical story.)
As a kid in Cameroon, she fell in love with books reading Shakespeare, Dickens, and Achebe, and public libraries were a haven when she moved to America at 17. She first arrived in Chicago (“too cold, too windy”), then attended Rutgers University in New Jersey and Teachers College, Columbia University in New York, where she earned a master’s degree in education and psychology. ....

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Imbolo Mbue on Andre Agassi,'The Friend,' and the Book She'd Like to See As a Netflix Series


Imbolo Mbue on Andre Agassi,‘The Friend,’ and the Book She d Like to See As a Netflix Series
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© Portrait by Kiriko Sano / Illustration by Yousra Attia
The PEN/Faulkner Award winning author of How Beautiful We Were on Andre Agassi, The Friend, and the Book She d Like to See As a Netflix Series.
Welcome to Shelf Life, ELLE.com’s books column, in which authors share their most memorable reads. Whether you’re on the hunt for a book to console you, move you profoundly, or make you laugh, consider a recommendation from the writers in our series, who, like you (since you’re here), love books. Perhaps one of their favorite titles will become one of yours, too. ....

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Secret War | HPPR


Credit United States. Central Intelligence Agency, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
This is Mike Strong, in Hays, for HPPR Radio Reader’s Book Club  The book is “The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down” by Anne Fadiman.
In 1979, three years after a failed previous escape and three years before Lia was born to the Lees, her family was part of a group of some 400 Hmong who escaped westward to Thailand, as their Vietnamese captors pursued them, setting fires and land mines. From there they emigrated to the US. Some 150,00 Hmong overall escaped the Vietnamese occupiers and the Pathet Lao. ....

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