Helms nominated Maupin for a patriotic award, which Maupin won. Maupin worked at WRAL-TV in Raleigh, a station managed by future U.S. He attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he wrote for The Daily Tar Heel. Maupin attended Ravenscroft School and graduated from Needham Broughton High School in 1962. His father, Armistead Jones Maupin, founded Maupin, Taylor & Ellis, one of the largest law firms in North Carolina. His great-great-grandfather, Congressman Lawrence O'Bryan Branch, was from North Carolina and was a railroad executive and a confederate general during the American Civil War. Maupin was born in Washington, D.C., to Diana Jane (Barton) and Armistead Jones Maupin. ( / ˈ m ɔː p ɪ n/ MAW-pin) (born May 13, 1944) is an American writer notable for Tales of the City, a series of novels set in San Francisco. Recorded September 2007 from the BBC Radio 4 programme BookclubĪrmistead Jones Maupin, Jr.
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Accompanying her irrepressible protagonist, Linda May, and others from campground toilet cleaning to warehouse product scanning to desert reunions, then moving on to the dangerous work of beet harvesting, Bruder tells a compelling, eye-opening tale of the dark underbelly of the American economy-one that foreshadows the precarious future that may await many more of us. Finding that Social Security comes up short, often underwater on mortgages, these invisible casualties of the Great Recession have taken to the road by the tens of thousands in late-model RVs, travel trailers, and vans, forming a growing community of nomads: migrant laborers who call themselves “workampers.” In a secondhand van she names “Halen,” Jessica Bruder hits the road to get to know her subjects more intimately. From the beet fields of North Dakota to the National Forest campgrounds of California to Amazon’s CamperForce program in Texas, employers have discovered a new, low-cost labor pool, made up largely of transient older Americans. Nomadland Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century Told through Nisha’s letters to her mother, The Night Diary is a heartfelt story of one girl’s search for home, for her own identity…and for a hopeful future. But even if her country has been ripped apart, Nisha still believes in the possibility of putting herself back together. The journey is long, difficult, and dangerous, and after losing her mother as a baby, Nisha can’t imagine losing her homeland, too. ‘An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.’ Papa had used those words before. It’s just that some people are better and being than others. When Papa decides it’s too dangerous to stay in what is now Pakistan, Nisha and her family become refugees and embark first by train but later on foot to reach her new home. Examples of Quotes or Dialogues from The Night Diary Amil is only being all he knows how to be. as we tackle The Night Diary by Veera Hiranandani. The divide has created much tension between Hindus and Muslims, and hundreds of thousands are killed crossing borders.Half-Muslim, half-Hindu twelve-year-old Nisha doesn’t know where she belongs, or what her country is anymore. Its just one of the topics we discuss with readers from Tyler Elementary School in Washington, D.C. In the vein of Inside Out and Back Again and The War That Saved My Life comes a poignant, personal, and hopeful tale of India’s partition, and of one girl’s journey to find a new home in a divided countryIt’s 1947, and India, newly independent of British rule, has been separated into two countries: Pakistan and India. 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Two friends-Vanya, brother of the professor's late first wife, who has long managed the estate, and Astrov, the local doctor-both fall under Yelena's spell while bemoaning the ennui of their provincial existence. The play portrays the visit of an elderly professor and his glamorous, much younger second wife, Yelena, to the rural estate that supports their urban lifestyle. It was first published in 1898, and was first produced in 1899 by the Moscow Art Theatre under the direction of Konstantin Stanislavski. Dyádya Ványa, IPA: ) is a play by the Russian playwright Anton Chekhov. In the Moscow Art Theatre production in 1899 Sign up for our free newsletter about books, authors, reading and more.The Book Pages: Starting a new year of reading □.Joyce Carol Oates talks Marilyn Monroe clones and more in ‘Night, Neon’ story collection.‘Orphan Train’ author Christina Baker Kline talks book party with Kristin Hannah and Elin Hilderbrand.Viet Thanh Nguyen describes turning to crime for new novel ‘The Committed’.The case often seems secondary as the attorney and his son – who now must drive his father to work each day, and who narrates the story – take stock of their lives. Guterson’s latest novel, his sixth, is more haunting and elegiac. An aging attorney named Royal agrees to defend the mother even though he finds everything about her distasteful.Īt first glance, this may sound like it bears resemblance to Guterson’s debut novel from 1994, the award-winning, best-seller “Snow Falling on Cedars.” But that book was a taut drama structured around the crime and the case. In David Guterson’s new novel, “The Final Case,” a White fundamentalist couple from outside Seattle is charged with abuse and the murder of the daughter they adopted from Ethiopia. The book attempts to explain why Eurasian and North African civilizations have survived and conquered others, while arguing against the idea that Eurasian hegemony is due to any form of Eurasian intellectual, moral, or inherent genetic superiority. A documentary based on the book, and produced by the National Geographic Society, was broadcast on PBS in July 2005. In 1998, it won the Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction and the Aventis Prize for Best Science Book. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (subtitled A Short History of Everybody for the Last 13,000 Years in Britain) is a 1997 transdisciplinary non-fiction book by Jared Diamond. Why Is Sex Fun? The Evolution of Human SexualityĬollapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed Na cites Frank McCourt's Angela's Ashes and Sandra Cisneros's The House on Mango Street among the influences on her writing and also admires the work of Madeleine L'Engle and of her first writing teacher, Jacqueline Woodson. She divides her time between Oakland, California and Warren, Vermont, and makes frequent visits to middle schools to talk about her works and encourages young Asian-American students to become artists and harness their creativity. Starting her career as a middle school English and History teacher, Na turned to writing novels after taking a young adult literature class while enrolled in an M.F.A. Na grew up in San Diego, California, and has a bachelor of arts from Amherst College. It was also a finalist for the National Book Award, Young People's Literature, and later found its way onto numerous "best book" lists. Printz Award from the American Library Association recognizing the year's "best book written for teens, based entirely on its literary merit". She gained success with her first novel A Step From Heaven, published by Front Street Press in 2001, which won the annual Michael L. An Na (born 1972) is a South Korea-born American children's book author. When 1990 rolled around, I was around mid-career at the Chicago Tribune, and I was primed for the next Johnson book from Caro. I was a young newspaper reporter when I read those two books, and Caro was a journalist-turned-biographer who conducted research to a depth I’d never seen before (nor would see ever from anyone else) and wrote with a forceful passion that was better than any novel. In the early 1980s, I’d read his monumental biography of Robert Moses of New York City, The Power Broker (1974) - which, decades later, I still consider the best book ever written about an American city - and the first installment of his biography of Johnson, The Path to Power (1982), an engrossing, absorbing, riveting examination of the rise and early congressional career of the future president. Caro’s Means of Ascent: The Years of Lyndon Johnson in the spring of 1990, right after it was published. Kept very much in the dark, few would ever guess the true nature of the tasks they performed each day in the hulking factories in the middle of the Appalachian Mountains. Thousands of civilians – many of them young women from small towns across the South – were recruited to this secret city, enticed by solid wages and the promise of war-ending work. But to most of the world, the town did not exist. Written by Denise Kiernan, Narrated by Cassandra CampbellĪt the height of World War II, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, was home to 75,000 residents, consuming more electricity than New York City. There, for the next three years, while enduring brutality and starvation, her bravery, resourcefulness, and faith are tested and her life forever changed.Īt once an epic tale of a nation at war and the deeply personal story of one woman’s journey through hell, A Pledge of Silence vividly illustrates the sacrifices the Greatest Generation made for their country, and the price they continued to pay long after the war was over. Captured by the invading Japanese, Margie ends up interned at Santa Tomas, an infamous prison camp. Though rumors of war circulate, she feels safe – the island is fortified, the airbases are ample, and the Filipino troops are well-trained. But on December 8, 1941, her dreamworld shatters. When Margie Bauer joins the Army Nurse Corps in 1941, she is delighted to be assigned to Manila – the Pearl of the Orient. |