Lorrie Moore won the prize for fiction on Thursday, while Judy Blume and her longtime ally in the fight against book bans, the American Library Association, were given honorary prizes by the National Book Critics Circle. Moore, best known as a short-story writer, won the fiction prize for her novel, “I Am Homeless if This Is Not My Home.” Committee …
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Before Eric Byrnes was drafted to Major League Baseball in 1994, he was just a kid from California who loved to play sports. Byrnes, discernibly a star baseball player, also learned karate and played football, tennis and basketball. Thinking back on the baseball memories he was most fond of as a child, he remembers relationships with friends, Jack in the …
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A library book due nearly 37 years ago was recently returned to a library in northern Colorado, the High Plains Library District announced in a Facebook post on Monday, March 18. “This book, ‘Psychedelics’ by Bernard Aaronson, was due back May 30th, 1987,” the High Plains Library District said in the post. “It was returned to Riverside Library and Cultural …
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Fox News Channel host Jesse Watters spoke with radical progressive activists for his new book, “Get It Together: Troubling Takes from the Liberal Fringe,” which hits stores on Tuesday and urges Americans to stop trying to solve personal problems with politics. Watters found that he actually liked some of the liberal activists and believes that many of their political positions …
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Do you need gift ideas for Mother’s Day? Don’t worry, you’ve come to the right place. You could always go the heartfelt route, or you can take a little bit of a different approach, adding some humor to your gift. MOTHER’S DAY: THE BEST ONE-LINERS AND LIFE ADVICE I’VE EVER GOTTEN FROM MOM This gift guide is full of ideas …
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