In the early and middle years of the 20th Century, America’s path westward was Route 66 — Chicago to L.A., a 2400-mile adventure to better times. Later on, in the first years of the 21st Century, Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer Edward Keating traveled every mile of Route 66 five times over, and he documented that times […]
bearnakedchef.com/publicity photo The Bear-Naked Chef announced that he’s going on tour… with Michelle Obama. Obama is planning a 12-city tour over the next month to promote her new book, Becoming, memoirs on her time at the White House. On Instagram, Adrian de Berardinis, better known as the Bear-Naked Chef, took a break from cooking naked […]
Story Highlights Seventy-four percent say equality of opportunity is an essential part Majorities say five of 10 possible aspects of American dream are essential Least essential: having a better lifestyle than parents WASHINGTON, D.C. — Almost three-fourths of U.S. investors (74%) say equality of opportunity is an “essential” part of the American dream — the […]
SHARJAH, United Arab Emirates–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Nov 13, 2018–The world’s third largest celebration of the written word, the Sharjah International Book Fair (SIBF), has put up yet another record performance in its 37th annual edition. Themed ‘A Tale of Letters’, the event was a dream come true occasion for book lovers, who had access to 20 million […]
Enjoy a sampling of the season’s best new books. Here at High Country News, we’ve combed through hundreds of titles relevant to the West, mostly from indie presses and other small publishers, to bring you a sampling of the season’s best new reads. Listings appear alphabetically by author; if a book is already available, […]
Aryan launched his second book ‘Tales of Realisation’ at the Sharjah International Book Fair (SIBF) 2018 on Friday, November 9. Everyone has a novelist inside them, but it’s only a few gifted ones who realise and bring it out – this is what Aryan Muralidharan, a fifteen-year-old author from The Millennium School, Dubai, said about […]
For four years, fans watched as Joanna Gaines brought homeowners’ interior imaginations come true with her exquisite designs on the HGTV series Fixer Upper, which she starred on along with her husband, home renovation expert Chip Gaines. Long before that, Joanna Gaines helped people fill the spaces of their dreams with the home goods sold […]
In January 2017, Ani DiFranco announced that she would be penning her memoir. Nearly two years later, the singer-songwriter has revealed the book will be titled No Walls And The Recurring Dream and is set for release via Viking Books on May 7. DiFranco’s memoir details her early life and nearly 30-year career in music, […]
Ani DiFranco, the proudly independent folk-rock artist who self-released her first LP in 1990, will release a memoir next spring. No Walls and the Recurring Dream will come out via Viking on May 7th. The book will chronicle her early life, her music, feminism and political activism, as well as her endeavors into philanthropy and […]
Why are these the manuscripts that have survived, and what wandering spirit has guarded them down the centuries? Our concept of authenticity is derived from the “presence of the original,” he writes, such as “proof that a given manuscript of the Middle Ages stems from an archive of the fifteenth century.” Without such proof, an […]
