If you haven’t yet heard about Angela Buchdahl, you must be living under a rock—as had I, until I picked up her recently published memoir titled, Heart of A Stranger. I learned therein about Rabbi Angela Buchdahl. Born to a Korean/Buddhist mom and American /Jewish dad, Buchdahl…
When Lila Pereira, executive director of the Washington Globe, dies in 2023 her passing makes front-page news. Pereira’s memorial service was mobbed with thousands of mourners. Ten speakers praised Lila’s decisive, tough-minded leadership and her illustrious career as top dog political…
Awarded the first-ever Goncourt Prize in the USA, The Postcard, a “true-novel,” is based on the factual life of the Rabinovitch family and in part on the seismic creative talent of French author Anne Berest, a member of that family. Compelling and truly a riveting search for family.
Compelling fiction, The Pursuit of Beauty, blurs the lines between what is natural or artificial and poses intriguing questions about beauty for the modern woman.
“Someone once wrote that telling a story is like a striptease. You don’t want to walk on the stage naked and you also don’t want to take too long to take off your clothes.” That statement perfectly describes the revelatory pace in a new historical fiction by author Mary Morris.…
