Still Life With Remorse is a compilation of love notes to family, art, music and literature. The book explores the interior landscape of the deliriously talented author/ illustrator Maira Kalman. Israeli born, American bred, Kalman celebrates with folksy-type of drawings, “to…
Shocking but sadly, true,the adorable, sweet-voiced Muppet, Elmo, was abducted and banished from Moscow. What business did Elmo even have going to Russia? For the most reliable answer please consult the most reliable source, filmmaker, TV producer, Natasha Lance Rogoff, now author of a…
Based on extensive research author Alice Hoffman fills in the gaps in the lives of the Frank sisters, Margot 14 and the younger, Anne 11 two years before the family was forced into hiding.
“What’s love got to do with it?” Song lyrics popularized by the late, great Tina Turner encapsulate the sentiment expressed by author Marcia A. Zug in a new book, You’ll Do, A History of Marrying for Reasons Other Than Love. Taking an historical approach with examples from colonial…
Joe Bosco graduated second, ahead of 131 other students from Harvard’s Medical School. Any parent would “kvell” about that prodigious result. But not Joe’s dad! Upon hearing Joe’s status he responds, “Do you know what second place is son”? Those stinging words would compel Joe…
