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In 1899 Henry James wrote to Henrietta Reubell on the subject of his mid-career novel “The Awkward Age,” originally published as serialized fiction in Harper’s Weekly.
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A thoroughly contemporary novel that both highlights the reactionary divide and the bridges that must be built between Gen Z and their parents, the debut work from Ryan Lee Wong is about the complexity of today’s family conversations.
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In 1852 in the Bloomsbury district of London, a young woman was laying around the studio of a famous artist.
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What if I told you there was a small business, run out of a family home in Kent, Conn., that saw averages of 300 thousand people a day?
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In the deep pine-scented quiet of the north woods, known here as the mythical land of Borea, a story unfolds: Its heroine, Rana Kek Kek, an “intrepid amphibian,” is about to embark on a journey of self-discovery in which she is transformed from a child into a Person of the World.
Bruce McEver, a part-time resident of Salisbury, Conn., has written a memoir that touches on life, love, the arts and high finance. Photo by Cynthia Hochswender
Nearly everyone I know is actively planning to write their memoir and hardly anyone I know has succeeded in doing so.
Bruce McEver is one of the few exceptions. A part-time resident of Salisbury, Conn., McEver is both a finance professional and a poet.
This year’s Haystack Book Talks Festival in Norfolk, Conn., will be held on Sept. 30 and Oct. 1 and 2.
There will be 80 seats available in the Norfolk Library Great Hall and the programs will be live-streamed.
Actor Stanley Tucci became America’s favorite foodie thanks to his travel/cooking series on CNN. His memoir, “Taste,” gives fans even more to love. Photo from IMDB
In that hypothetical game where I’m asked whom I’d love to host for dinner, Stanley Tucci remains firmly at the top of my guest list.
What would the author Henry James think if he knew that his books were still being discussed in the year 2022 — and that the discussions were being held “virtually,” on Zoom?
Philosopher Lee McIntyre, a Research Fellow at Boston University, opens his book, “How to Talk to a Science Denier: Conversations with Flat Earthers, Climate Deniers, and Others Who Defy Reason,” with his account of visiting a Flat Earth Convention in 2018 — where people committed to the idea that the Earth is flat gather to exchange their parti
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