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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.
What’s in your backpack? Traildog and Dirt Work author Christine Byl shows us what’s in hers.
Watch the book trailer to Kate Bornstein’s A Queer and Pleasant Danger, which is now out in paperback!
You must watch Geoffrey Canada’s TED Talk on our education system—Our failing schools. Enough is enough!
Holocaust Remembrance Week is April 7-14. In this video, My Mother’s Wars author Lillian Faderman reads a selection from her book detailing her mother’s efforts to rescue her family from the Holocaust.
Viktor E. Frankl on finding meaning in difficult times.
Watch the book trailer for Opportunity, Montana: Big Copper, Bad Water, and the Burial of an American Landscape by Brad Tyer (on sale 3/26/13)
Eboo Patel on his new book, Sacred Ground: Pluralism, Prejudice, and the Promise of America.
Elinor Lipman wants your vote!
“Tell me, what is it you plan to do/with your one wild and precious life?” Mary Oliver asks in “The Summer Day.” In honor of the summer solstice, listen to her poem, which first appeared in House of Light. The audio reading is from At Blackwater Pond
