Dan Durkee, a former firefighter, channels his professional expertise into crafting heart-pounding horror fiction, adding authenticity to fiction. October 4th 2023: Colorado Springs, CO — Dan Durkee, a 25-year veteran of the fire service, is making waves in the literary […]
Art & Books
Struck By Genius? First Time Author Creates Stormy New Book Genre
Ryan Reese is a man on a mission. He is not just any writer; he claims to have created a new genre on the literary landscape with his debut novel, “A Larger Loss”. His book is centered around the world […]
Book Review: ‘The Wind at My Back,’ by Misty Copeland; ‘Weightless,’ by Evette Dionne; ‘A Coastline Is an Immeasurable Thing,’ by Mary-Alice Daniel
If there is a missed opportunity in “Weightless,” I wish she’d have asserted more clearly not just that fat people shouldn’t be subject to criticism and discrimination, but also that they have a right to exist — period. Dionne stops […]
Gabriela Charatsari publishes a new best-selling book!
Award-winning and best-selling author Gabriela Charatsari releases her newest children’s book, “Maribel and the Magical Mission”. Charatsari tells an original, enchanting, and fantastical story about friendship and caring for animals and the environment. Charatsari is a Berlin, Germany-based author. She […]
Jennette McCurdy Is Ready to Move Forward, and to Look Back
When Jennette McCurdy was 16, she was in her third year on “iCarly,” the hit teen sitcom on Nickelodeon. Millions of young viewers admired her for her comic portrayal of Sam Puckett, the wisecracking pal of its title character, and […]
‘Mothercare’ Takes a Hard Look at What Happens When Duty Outlives Love
MOTHERCAREOn Obligation, Love, Death, and AmbivalenceBy Lynne TillmanIllustrated. 161 pages. Soft Skull. $23. Care work — tending to the sick, the very young or the very old — has long been denied the kind of recognition (and remuneration) that such […]
Using Fiction to Summon the Glittering, Golden Age of Hollywood
He loved it, despite the class’s unenthusiastic response to his first effort, which he described as a short story “about a troubled 18-year-old smoking too many cigarettes behind the U.P.S. store.” Marra ditched the idea of Boston and went instead […]
Will the Biggest Publisher in the United States Get Even Bigger?
When the largest publisher in the country, Penguin Random House, struck a deal in the fall of 2020 to acquire its rival Simon & Schuster, publishing executives and antitrust experts predicted that the merger would draw intense scrutiny from government […]
An Empathetic Account of the Complexity After Apartheid
THE INHERITORSAn Intimate Portrait of South Africa’s Racial ReckoningBy Eve Fairbanks399 pages. Simon & Schuster. $27.99. It was nothing short of a miracle — that was what South African schoolchildren were taught when Nelson Mandela was elected president in 1994, […]
