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June 5, 2017
50 Years Later, ‘Loving’ Revisits The Landmark Supreme Court Ruling : NPR
This content was originally published by on 5 June 2017 | 5:17 pm. Source link TERRY GROSS, HOST: This is FRESH AIR. I’m Terry Gross. Next Monday marks the 50th anniversary of Loving v. Virginia, the Supreme Court decision that overturned the laws that remained in 16 states prohibiting interracial marriage. The plaintiffs were Richard…
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How Taking a New Path in Writing Can Fire Up Your Muse
This content was originally published by Guest Column on 5 June 2017 | 5:22 pm. Source link “What about a magical blow dryer?” Liz admired her freshly blown out hair in the mirror at DryBar, clearly the inspiration for the idea. Lisa shrugged and took a long sip of her champagne. It was May 2014…
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Paperback Row – The New York Times
This content was originally published by JOUMANA KHATIB on 2 June 2017 | 12:15 pm. Source link Photo Six new paperbacks to check out this week. The Gene: An Intimate History, by Siddhartha Mukherjee. (Scribner, $20.) A sweeping history of the study of genetics is paired with an account of mental illness in the author’s…
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Avie Bennett, Canadian Publisher, Dies
This content was originally published by on 5 June 2017 | 4:00 am. Source link Avie Bennett, Toronto entrepreneur and former owner of the Canadian publisher McClelland & Stewart, died on June 2. He was 89. Bennett made his fortune developing strip malls in Canada, starting in the 1950s. In December 1985, he purchased the…
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Driven Off Course: How Volkswagen Got on the Road to Scandal
This content was originally published by BETHANY McLEAN on 5 June 2017 | 9:00 am. Source link Despite the horrible history, the Porsche family somehow managed to keep hold of the license for Volkswagen design. Even more, thanks to a brilliant advertising campaign, Volkswagen Beetles and vans, decked out with psychedelic colors, became a ubiquitous…
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BookCon 2017: Consumers Flock to Javits to Meet Authors—and Publishers
This content was originally published by on 5 June 2017 | 4:00 am. Source link BookCon, which returned to New York City and to a two-day format, drew a strong crowd, continuing to skew towards female readers of YA literature. Source link
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Fiction: An Exuberant Satire of the Culture of Swipe
This content was originally published by ANNALISA QUINN on 5 June 2017 | 9:00 am. Source link In “Touch,” Courtney Maum envisions a near future of takeout food and phone play. A very near future. Source link
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Dennis Lehane’s Latest Follows a Woman in a Downward Spiral
This content was originally published by NOAH HAWLEY on 2 June 2017 | 1:00 pm. Source link After college she becomes a TV journalist, a talking head with a bright future and a handsome fiancé, himself rising through the ranks at the network. But under it all is a gnawing question: Who is my father,…
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Making Science Explode on the Page
This content was originally published by on 4 June 2017 | 4:00 am. Source link This fall will bring “Reactions: An Illustrated Exploration of Elements, Molecules, and Change in the Universe” by Theodore Gray (Black Dog & Leventhal), the long-awaited third installment in Gray’s popular Elements trilogy. Source link
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June 4, 2017
New Life for a 125-Year-Old Literary Journal
This content was originally published by ALEXANDRA ALTER on 4 June 2017 | 9:15 pm. Source link But more than that, Mr. Ross has restored some of the journal’s cultural cache. The winter 2017 issue featured work by prominent writers like Lauren Groff, Stephanie Danler, Adam Kirsch and John Jeremiah Sullivan, who contributed an essay…
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