Art & Books
5 Famous Female Painters Every Art Lover Should Know
OLY. B “With each painting, I tell a different story of my feelings, the people I meet, and the phrases I say. I take a portion of my life and soul and leave them on the canvas,” OLY admits in her interview. Creative and visionary artists can easily recognize the combination of certain colors and […]
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DOW CREATIVE ENTERPRISES INTRODUCES AWARD-WINNING CHILDREN’S BOOK NURSE FLORENCE®, TELL ME THINGS ABOUT THE HEART;
Nurse Florence®, Tell Me Things About the Heart by Dow Creative Enterprises has won the Siler Award from The Mom’s Choice Awards®. These awards evaluate products and services created for children, families, and educators. This award program is recognized around the world for establishing the benchmark of excellence in family-friendly media, products and services. The […]
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The Devil’s Gospel by Iliyan Kuzmanov
The new novel by the master of neoliberal motivational philosopher Iliyan Kuzmanov, The Devil I Know, is committed to the freedom of the individual and the law in various totalitarian realities. Iliyan reinvents timeless values with biting sarcasm. Common principles dictate that all are blindly equal before the Supreme Being, but not the equality that […]
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Using Fiction to Summon the Glittering, Golden Age of Hollywood
He loved it, despite the class’s unenthusiastic response to his first effort, which he described as a short story “about a troubled 18-year-old smoking too many cigarettes behind the U.P.S. store.” Marra ditched the idea of Boston and went instead to the University of Southern California. He spent part of his junior year studying in […]
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In ‘The Kingdoms of Savannah,’ Oddballs Circle Around a Murder Mystery
THE KINGDOMS OF SAVANNAHBy George Dawes Green289 pages. Celadon Books. $27.99. Writer’s block has gone lamentably out of fashion, with people posting on the internet for free at all hours, the James Patterson conveyor belt, etc. So an author who takes a nice long time between books can provoke special affection and attention. George Dawes […]
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‘Hollywood Ending,’ a Cradle-to-Jail Biography of Harvey Weinstein
Weinstein’s reputation for sexual trespass had started early, when he was a concert promoter in Buffalo. As he aged, his influence waned — the whole movie industry waned — just as he was seeking younger prey, from a cohort that “increasingly spent their free time on social networks like Facebook,” Auletta reminds, “rather than going […]
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Award-winning Author Gabriela Charatsari publishes another fantastic book!
BERLIN—June 3, 2022—Award-winning and best-selling author Gabriela Charatsari releases her newest children’s book, “Maribel and the Magical Mission”. Charatsari tells an original, enchanting, and fantastical story about friendship and caring for animals and the environment. Charatsari is a Berlin, Germany-based author. She is known for writing stories in a fairytale style that teaches values and […]
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New Books to Read in July
In 2016, Pringle, an investigative journalist for The Los Angeles Times, received what turned out to be a career-changing tip: The dean of University of Southern California’s medical school was linked to a drug overdose. As he continued reporting, Pringle, a Pulitzer-winning journalist, realized that the scandal was only the beginning and would result in […]
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The Life of Jean Rhys, a Uniquely Brilliant and Thorny Writer
I USED TO LIVE HERE ONCEThe Haunted Life of Jean RhysBy Miranda SeymourIllustrated. 421 pages. W.W. Norton & Company. $32.50. Like George Orwell, Thomas Hardy and W.H. Auden, the British novelist Jean Rhys did not want to be the subject of a biography and took steps to muddy her trail. Rhys destroyed many letters; she […]
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