‘The Doll Factory’ is a guilty pleasure wrapped around a provocative history lesson

Both creepy and brainy, Elizabeth Macneal’s novel about a mad taxidermist is stuffed with excitement. Continue reading at 'The Washington Post'

[ The Washington Post | 2019-08-06 16:00:00 UTC ]
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‘The Doll Factory’ is a guilty pleasure wrapped around a provocative history lesson

Both creepy and brainy, Elizabeth Macneal’s novel about a mad taxidermist is stuffed with excitement. Continue reading at The Washington Post

[ The Washington Post | 2019-08-06 16:00:00 UTC ]
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Girls to the Front: A Reading List of Provocative Feminist History

My particular variety of feminism has long been one devoted to the idea that women’s lives are not solely defined by their familial roles (wife, mother, sister, etc). Women’s lives are shaped by the communities they build, run from, collide within, and redefine. Communities of women, those whom... Continue reading at Literrary Hub

[ Literrary Hub | 2023-04-18 08:52:31 UTC ]
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10 Guilty Pleasure Novels to Devour

May Cobb, author of the new novel 'The Hunting Wives Club,' picks her 10 favorite page-turners. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2021-06-04 04:00:00 UTC ]
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Lupita Nyong’o Had a Guilty Pleasure on the Set of ‘12 Years a Slave’

The Oscar-winning actress, whose new children’s book is “Sulwe,” enjoyed “Fifty Shades of Grey” during filming: “I needed something light and inconsequential to take me out of the harshness of the world.” Continue reading at The New York Times

[ The New York Times | 2019-10-03 09:00:09 UTC ]
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Are there any actual guilty pleasures on this Politico reading list from DC “heavy hitters”?  

Noted politics-as-sport website Politico has put together a collection of bedside-table reading recommendations from 40 “political heavy hitters,” asking them for serious reads and guilty pleasures. First of all, are there any actual guilty pleasures on this list of books from the likes of Beto... Continue reading at Literrary Hub

[ Literrary Hub | 2019-07-09 15:27:59 UTC ]
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The Doll Factory lands TV deal

Buccaneer Media has optioned the "astonishing" hotly tipped debut novel The Doll Factory by Scottish potter Elizabeth Macneal. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2018-07-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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‘Queen of Instagram’ Gayle King Spills Her TV Guilty Pleasures

Specs Who Gayle King Age 60 Claim to fame Co-host of CBS This Morning (weekdays at 7 a.m.) and editor at large of O, The Oprah Magazine (currently celebrating its 15th anniversary) Base New York Twitter @GayleKing What's the first information you consume in the morning? I get up at 3:30, so I... Continue reading at AdWeek

[ AdWeek | 2015-04-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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LL Cool J's Guilty Pleasure Is Watching Mob Wives' Catfights

Specs Who LL Cool J Age 46 Claim to fame Grammy Award- winning rapper and star of NCIS: Los Angeles (Season 6 premieres Monday, Sept. 29 on CBS) Base New York What’s the first information you consume in the morning? I look at all the trending topics everywhere, but I also like to maybe read... Continue reading at AdWeek

[ AdWeek | 2014-09-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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LL Cool J’s Guilty Pleasure Is Watching Mob Wives’ Catfights

Specs Who LL Cool J Age 46 Claim to fame Grammy Award- winning rapper and star of NCIS: Los Angeles (Season 6 premieres Monday, Sept. 29 on CBS) Base New York What’s the first information you consume in the morning? I look at all the trending topics everywhere, but I also like to maybe read... Continue reading at AdWeek

[ AdWeek | 2014-09-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Benjamin Zephaniah | 'To tell the real, honest truth about the history of Britain would mean changing the history books'

The latest book by Benjamin Zephaniah follows a Trinidadian woman who boarded the Windrush to pursue her singing dream. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2022-01-22 07:13:29 UTC ]
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Profile lands Kars' Cundhill History Prize-winning history of Guyanese revolt

Profile has acquired the Cundill History Prize-winning Blood on the River: A Chronicle of Mutiny and Freedom on the Wild Coast, a "gripping and immersive" work of history uncovering a little-known slave revolt, by Marjoleine Kars. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2021-12-13 00:06:45 UTC ]
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History Press lands book on how CIA shaped history from Charlwood

The History Press has snapped up a new book on how the CIA has shaped history, by David Charlwood.  Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2021-11-21 23:38:12 UTC ]
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Histories of Violence: Unlearning History

THIS IS THE 37th in a series of dialogues with artists, writers, and critical thinkers on the question of violence. This conversation is with Ariella Aïsha Azoulay, a theorist of photography and visual culture. She is a professor of Modern Culture and Media and the Department of Comparative... Continue reading at Los Angeles Review of Books

[ Los Angeles Review of Books | 2020-03-02 13:30:59 UTC ]
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Living History: 5 Comics About History and Culture

Next time you or the kids are looking for an informative nonfiction or historical fiction read, pick up one of these comics about history and culture. Continue reading at Book Riot

[ Book Riot | 2019-12-10 11:42:18 UTC ]
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A brief history of Stephen Hawking's A Brief History of Time

The late physicist’s editor, Peter Guzzardi, recalls his first meetings with Hawking and how his book became a bestsellerStephen Hawking dies aged 76I first encountered Stephen Hawking on the cover of the New York Times magazine. Inside, its pages told a story we all know today, but at the time... Continue reading at The Guardian

[ The Guardian | 2018-03-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Texas Library Re-Classifies Nonfiction Native American History Book as Fiction: Book Censorship News, November 1, 2024

"We know from history that a way you control a nation is by controlling what its citizens read" — Jodi Picoult Continue reading at Book Riot

[ Book Riot | 2024-11-01 11:00:00 UTC ]
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A New Book Explores the History of Racialization in Psychiatry

Scholar Judith Weisenfeld explains how U.S. psychiatrists pathologized Black religious belief after the abolition of slavery in ‘New World A-Coming: Black Religion and Racial Identity During the Great Migration.’ Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2024-11-01 05:00:00 UTC ]
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A New History Spans 10,000 Years of Faith in America

Thomas Tweed’s sweeping ‘Religion in the Lands That Became America: From the Ice Age to the Information Age’ explores 10,000 years of faith in North America. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

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