Even when I close my eyes tight and wrinkle my forehead in deep concentration on my early childhood growing up in Memphis and ...

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Marion Wiesel, who translated many books written by her husband, Elie Wiesel, including the final edition of his magnum opus, ...

But after his fall, beginning in his first days in the hospital, Kureishi started to write furiously. A flurry of ...

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How to Pick a College Essay Topic. You usually have several broad, open-ended essay prompts to choose from. Successful essays focus on a specific experience, hobby or quirk that r ...

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Reading, writes Edwina Preston, is a way of journeying on the wings of others without moving from the armchair (or bed). Here ...

One way to think of poems is as the stories of a moment. All art, at its root, is a way of telling stories. Even paintings — the Mona Lisa is the story of a woman’s smile; the ceiling of the Sistine ...

The SAG-AFTRA Foundation kicked off Black History Month by launching the fourth season of its Legacy Collection, a series of ...

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News is hosting its third annual holiday memories essay contest. Contest winners and honorable mentions will have their stories featured in the Dec. 26 issue of Lakeshore Weekly ...