Authors discuss why equal opportunity and pay equity are so difficult to achieve, and what can be done about it. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2024-11-29 05:00:00 UTC ]
The inaugural title from Salty Days Media, a new partnership-driven publishing company from America's Test Kitchen vet Sara Domville, is slated for October 1. 'Our American Dream Cookbook' is a collaboration with Samuel Adams’ philanthropic program Brewing the American Dream. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2024-09-03 04:00:00 UTC ]
Our book picks this month touch on themes of change and renewal. They include a memoir about embracing a truer identity, a report on one Ohio town’s struggle toward racial equity, and a novel about pursuing the American dream. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2023-08-28 15:22:29 UTC ]
From family sagas that span decades to memoirs about chasing the American dream, these 6 AAPI must-reads hit bookshop shelves this May. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2023-05-18 13:00:16 UTC ]
Death of a Salesman is returning to Broadway! In 1949, Arthur Miller won the Pulitzer Prize for this play, a critique of the futility of chasing the American Dream. Willy Loman has spent so much of his life on the road as a traveling salesman; upon returning home, he comes to the shattering... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2022-06-01 15:31:43 UTC ]
The sixth installment in the AAPI Communities in Conversation series, featuring Malaka Gharib, author of 'I Was Their American Dream,' is now set for Tuesday, June 14, 2022, at 1:00 pm ET. Register here. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2022-05-27 04:00:00 UTC ]
Bennett’s new memoir, “(Re)Born in the USA,” traces an offbeat journey from obsession to proud citizenship. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2021-07-01 10:00:00 UTC ]
Han’s debut novel follows a Chinese couple reaching for the American Dream while raising their children in Texas. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2020-11-30 16:27:21 UTC ]
Yan's debut novel overturns the tropes of the romance novel in this story about an immigrant's doomed pursuit of marriage and the American dream. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2020-11-02 15:00:30 UTC ]
New books coming out from religion and spirituality publishers in April include 'A Woman Called Moses,' ‘The Myth of the American Dream,’ ‘Confessions of a Gay Priest,’ and more. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2020-03-25 04:00:00 UTC ]
“Nobody Will Tell You This but Me,” a memoir by Bess Kalb, traces her family history from the Russian pogroms to the American dream. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2020-03-17 09:00:08 UTC ]
Nicholas Lemann traces the effects as corporations changed from paternalistic to ruthless. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2019-10-31 21:46:02 UTC ]
Ahead of the Frankfurt Book Fair, PW caught up with Nicholas Lemann, author of the brilliant new book, 'Transaction Man: The Rise of the Deal and the Decline of the American Dream.' Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2019-10-16 04:00:00 UTC ]
Malaka Gharib, the author of the coming-of-age graphic memoir “I Was Their American Dream,” shares her tips. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2019-08-21 16:56:03 UTC ]
In his op-ed for Forbes last year, Panos Mourdoukoutas, a professor of economics at LIU Post in New York, suggested that Amazon stores should replace libraries to save taxpayers money. Following the backlash this preposterous suggestion created, Forbes took the article down. But the outpouring... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2019-07-12 08:48:09 UTC ]
The pursuit of happiness shouldn’t come at the expense of one’s health and relationships, argues VisumCx founder and CEO. We all want to be happy. You’ve probably watched movies about seeking it, read books on what you need to do to achieve it, and listened to songs about finding it. If you’re... Continue reading >> [ Source: Fast Company | 2019-06-20 13:00:03 UTC ]
In the late summer of 1941, as millions of Americans were debating whether to become involved in the war against Hitler, the journalist Dorothy Thompson wrote a celebrated essay for Harper's magazine. The title was Who Goes Nazi?, and Thompson explained that she had devised "a somewhat macabre... Continue reading >> [ Source: Stuff | 2018-07-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
Parker called Stephanie Powell Watts’ debut novel 'No One Is Coming to Save Us' “deeply compelling and richly satisfying," and described it as a “brilliant examination of the American dream among African-Americans in a struggling community in the contemporary South.” Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2017-06-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
The author of 'Garbology: Our Dirty Love Affair With Trash' discusses how he became fascinated with garbage.Edward Humes is a man of eclectic storytelling tastes. A former journalist awarded a Pulitzer Prize in 1989 for a series of stories he wrote for the Orange County Register on the military... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2012-04-17 00:00:00 UTC ]