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Seven decades ago, Jackie Robinson stepped onto Brooklyn’s Ebbets Field and changed not only the face of professional baseball in America: in ways...
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It’s Grilled Cheese Month. We’re Bookish. So here are books about grilled cheese. You’re welcome.
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Look at that smile filled with charm and smarm. Oh, Ernest. We knew you were trouble when you walked in.
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Frances Benjamin Johnston with group of children looking at her camera between 1890 and 1910.
Happy 88th birthday, James Baldwin. Baldwin (1924-1987) was a novelist, essayist, playwright, poet, and social critic, and one of America’s foremost writers. His essays explore palpable yet unspoken intricacies of racial, sexual, and class distinctions in Western societies, most notably in mid-twentieth-century America. As an openly gay man, he became increasingly outspoken in condemning discrimination against lesbian and gay people. Notes of a Native Son, his first nonfiction collection of essays, will be re-released on November 20 and will be available in ebook format for the first time!
A first look at the cover for the new edition of James Baldwin’s classic essay collection, Notes of a Native Son, coming out November 2012!
