Here are fifteen things you never knew about early librarian Mary Foy! Foy had only a high school degree when she became librarian of the Central Library in 1880. She apprenticed under older…
David Greenberg is a former editor of The New Republic and a current professor of history, journalism, and media studies at Rutgers University. His byline has appeared in The New York Times…
Sara B. Franklin is a writer, historian, teacher, and mom. Her previous work includes editing Edna Lewis: At the Table With an American Original and The Phoenicia Diner Cookbook. She earned her PhD in…
Music legends don’t start out that way. First, they are children with a love for music and the motivation to learn, even if they face seemingly impossible odds along the way. Below are seven…
While Canadian journalist/novelist Corey Doctorow's recently released Enshittification has more to offer than a book called On Bullshit, there are chapters in this 338-page nonfiction book that travel a similar road. ‘Bullshit’ is a tongue-in-cheek short tome (fashioned from a 1986 essay by Harry G. Frankfurt). Enshittification aims to give...
If you've ever wondered, in the slightest, what it was like to work at a magazine during the prosperous 1990s and the early aughts, former Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter's When the Going Was Good may be the book for you. It is an easy read of approximately 400 pages...
Black and blue, Your Blues Ain't Like Mine, Little Girl Blue, The Bluest Eye, A Patch of Blue—these are just a sampling of the expressions, books, song titles, and films that made up the soundtrack of Black lives in America. In Black in Blues: How a Color Tells the Story...
Reading From Here to the Great Unknown, the authorized memoir taken from Lisa Marie Presley's voice recordings with organization and narrative from her daughter, the actress Riley Keough, is an intimate look at rock and roll icon Elvis Presley and, for this writer, a little like revisiting the South.
Although...
