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Fun Facts Friday: Ida Tarbell

Ida Tarbell (5 November, 1857 – 6 January, 1944) was an author, biographer, lecturer, educator and an early pioneer of…

3 years ago

Fun Facts Friday: Stephen Jay Gould

Stephen Jay Gould (10 September, 1941 – 20 May, 2002) was a paleontologist who wrote science books for both scientists…

3 years ago

Book Review: The Plot by Jean Hanff Korelitz

A struggling writer finds himself teaching a third-rate MFA program in Vermont, finds himself harrassed for stealing a dead student's…

4 years ago

Book Review: Rhapsody by Mitchell James Kaplan

Kathrine Swift is a talented pianist who married the competent banker James Warburg meets and falls in love with composer…

4 years ago

Fun Facts Friday: Charlotte Zolotow

Charlotte Zolotow (26 June, 1915 – 19 November, 2013) was a prolific writer of children books, editor and poet. Mrs.…

5 years ago

Book Review: The Greatest Beer Run Ever by John “Chickie” Donohue and J. T. Molloy

If this story of a beer run wasn’t true it would have been unbelievable, falling squarely under the category of…

5 years ago

Book Review: Beaming Up and Getting Off by Walter Koenig

The book is filled with wonderful, self-deprecating humor (as is expected from any person of Jewish origin), wit and charm.…

5 years ago

Fun Facts Friday: Joseph Pulitzer

Joseph Pulitzer (10 April, 1847 – 29 October, 1911) was a newspaper publisher of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and the…

5 years ago

Fun Facts Friday: Howard Lindsay

Howard Lindsay (29 March, 1889 – 11 February, 1968) was an American Pulitzer Prize award winner playwright, director and actor.

5 years ago

Book Review: The Lost Book of Adana Moreau by Michael Zapata

The Lost Book of Adana Moreau by Michael Zapata is a novel spanning generations about a science fiction writer and…

5 years ago

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