Robertson
Tatsha Robertson Tatsha Robertson is a journalist and co-author of Media Circus: A Look at Private Tragedy in the Public Eye, with Kim Goldman, the sister of Ron who was killed alongside Nicole Simpson, the wife of OJ Simpson. The book focuses on the grieving process of victims of high-profile tragedies. She is currently writing […]
Armstrong
Thomas Armstrong, Ph.D. is the Executive Director of the American Institute for Learning and Human Development, and an award-winning author and speaker who has been an educator for over fifty years. Over 1.5 million copies of his books are in print in English on issues related to learning and human development. He is the author […]
Kelly
Joseph Kelly, Ph.D. Whether he’s writing about John Smith or John C. Calhoun, about the Union’s siege of Charleston in the Civil War or the shipwrecked birth of America, Joseph Kelly looks for the human story, fully painting the figures who make history happen. Always he aims to write about complex ideas and history in lively, readable prose. […]
A DIFFERENT SUN Book Club
Debut novelist Elaine Neil Orr has been very busy promoting her gorgeous novel about a missionary in the pre-Civil War South who goes to Africa. Inspired by the diary of an actual missionary, A DIFFERENT SUN has been getting rave reviews. Elaine, who teaches literature at North Carolina State University, sent in this wonderful photo […]
Elaine Neil Orr at Quail Ridge Books, Raleigh, NC
Last night, April 9, Elaine Neil Orr launched A Different Sun (Berkley/Penguin), a novel about a young missionary woman who leaves her parent’s plantation to accompany her missionary husband to Africa, at a wonderful independent bookstore in Raleigh, Quail Ridge Books. Orr, who was born in Nigeria, where much of the novel takes place, was […]
I Believe in NaNoWriMo
—A Guest Post from Melissa F. Olson, whose debut DEAD SPOTS was just published by 47North For thirteen years now, a small non-profit organization based out of SanFranscisco has transformed the otherwise boring month of November into National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo for short), which is, as they put it, “thirty days and nights of […]
Spotted at McNally Jackson Bookmongers, Princeton, NJ
It’s not too late for the candidates to get some guidance from Quintius Cicero on how to run a successful campaign! You can “Like” Quintius Cicero” on Facebook where he will continue to live-blog during the final Presidential debate. Here is HOW TO WIN AN ELECTION, Edited by Philip Freeman, well-positioned next to a “binder.”
Remembering Kathi Kamen-Goldmark
I first encountered Kathi Kamen-Goldmark seven years ago when our mutual dear friend and my client, Leslie Levine, asked me to join her, Kathi and Sam Barry to lead what has come to be known as the reading and writing week at Rancho La Puerta, a health spa of some renown in Tecate, Mexico. With […]
Freeman
Philip Freeman Classicist, historian and novelist Philip Freeman brings a remarkable gift as a storyteller and an ability to make the ancient world contemporary through his interpretation and translation of events and great works. Currently the Fletcher Jones Chair of Western Culture at Pepperdine University, Dr. Freeman earned a joint Ph.D. at Harvard University in […]