Can Books Get Us Through These Hard Times?
- ARTICLES, ESSAYS, POETRY, STORIES, BOOKS & HISTORY
- January 9, 2017
Editor’s Note: Kerry Arquette’s book of poems, War Cries: Unheard Voices, Unmarked Graves is now available here. Trump’s comments throughout his campaign dehumanized Muslims, undocumented immigrants, women, members of the LGBT community, African Americans, war veterans, scientists, doctors, Iowans, the disabled, and many others. With the precision of a surgeon, he divided the American “us”
READ MORE“A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic.”—Carl Sagan. Book lovers will want to check out these 15 surreal works of art featuring books. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. Related: 25 Library Patrons Depicted In Works Of Art Receive top book recommendations directly in
READ MOREIn “Looking for Literary America”, author James Hitt searches out the people and places that have impacted American literature. In the tenth episode, James profiles Langston Hughes.
READ MOREMaybe it was that time you found yourself standing up for a stranger. Maybe it was that moment when you depended only on yourself to find your feet after a fall. Or maybe it was that one compliment from the teacher who planted the seed. The one talk from Mom or Dad that changed everything.
READ MORE“If I could but know his heart, everything would become easy.”—Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility. Romantics and book lovers will love these 10 romantic quotes from literature. 1. “I do love nothing in the world so well as you – is not that strange?” —William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing 2. “The very first moment I beheld
READ MOREBooks lovers will love these 25 quotes about the benefits of reading. 1. “You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the
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