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“The Songs of Betty Baach” Is a Modern…

BooksMarch 22, 2023

by Jody DiPerna Glenn Taylor's home state of West Virginia inspires his fiction. He tells stories of the resilience, struggle and joy of working people. There are labor battles, timbering, and coal mining; there is…

New Book “This Is My Jail” Digs Deep…

BooksFebruary 19, 2023

by Jody DiPerna Melanie Newport is an historian who teaches urban history and criminal justice history at the University of Connecticut at Hartford. Her book, "This Is My Jail:  Local Politics and the Rise of…

Neema Avashia Expands Our Understanding of the Region…

BooksFebruary 27, 2022

By Jody DiPerna What if I told you that reading a book would inspire you to pair "Ghetto Supastar" (Pras) with "Islands in the Stream" (Dolly Parton and Kenny Rogers) on your latest playlist? Or…

Mant¿s’ new collection, “The Rootwork Stretched,” grows poetry

BooksJanuary 23, 2022

"The Rootwork Stretched," an intimate and inviting new poetry chapbook by Mant¿s, is soaked in the groundwork of artists and healers who have come before them.  Specific and alive in one Black fem's reinterpretation of…

‘The Violence Project’ book investigates mass shootings in…

BooksOctober 26, 2021

by Jody DiPerna In September of this year, Abrams Press released a new book by Jillian Peterson and James Densley titled, "The Violence Project: How to Stop a Mass Shooting Epidemic." The book is the result…

Mark Oppenheimer’s book explores Tree of Life attack,…

BooksOctober 26, 2021

By Jody DiPerna Writer Mark Oppenheimer, author of the new book "Squirrel Hill: The Tree of Life Synagogue Shooting and the Soul of a Neighborhood," just released by Knopf, was looking for a way to…

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