…lasting contributions to society have come out of Oak Ridge, Tennessee? Why is it difficult to celebrate or commemorate the work that has been done in that secret city? Book-Club-Discussion-Guide__The-Girls-of-Atomic-City…

…beast, with a parallel examination of a legendary writer’s eccentric falconry. Obsession, madness, memory, myth, and history combine to achieve a distinctive blend of nature writing and memoir from an…

…Fellow at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government and a former professor of nonfiction writing, Smarsh is a frequent speaker on economic inequality and media narratives relating this topic. She…

…mission is to archive the work of all of the women who worked as computers and mathematicians in the early days of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) and…

…greater changes to come? How do you imagine Kevin and Dana’s relationship will progress following their re- emergence into life in 1976? (Questions issued by the publisher.) [From: Litlovers.com] Book-Club-Discussion-Guide__Kindred…

…his teaching position as an associate professor at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota. Writing His debut novel, The Nix, was published in 2016 and received widespread…

…House. In 2014 she turned to freelance—ghostwriting memoir, biography, and history. It was in 2015, while directing a London version of the play, These Shining Lives, the story of women…

…spent in Nigeria. Although she has not lived in her hometown for over a decade, much of her writing centers on the urban south. “Although I now live in the…

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…a huge amount of it as a kid. You know, Agatha Christie, Josephine Tey, Dorothy L. Sayers, Sherlock Holmes. And I didn’t consciously channel that when I was writing, but…