10+ hour, 29+ min ago  (44+ words) 13wham. com Brother Wease talks new memoir Local radio legend Brother Wease is telling his story in a new memoir. Wease and co-author Marshall Fine joined ARC Rochester on Wednesday to talk about "At Ease with Brother Wease."...

2+ hour, 52+ min ago  (337+ words) Exploring The Comics Universe How do you tell a story that has already been told many times? How do you tell a story that at times seems stuck in time because the past, present, and future look almost the same?...

3+ hour, 48+ min ago  (189+ words) Timothy Ryan Day, Ph. D. , professor of literature and creative writing at Saint Louis University-Madrid, has released a new novel, "Leaven," a speculative work exploring neuroscience, artificial intelligence and what it means to be alive. Day launched the novel May 21 at…...

22+ min ago  (443+ words) Seasonal Vineyarder Elisa Speranza's new historical fiction, "Triage," is an intimate, beautifully nuanced portrait of a woman whose past makes her present-day existence dangerously precarious. Speranza skillfully draws us into Laura Marino's journey, alternating between her challenging life as an…...

5+ hour, 17+ min ago  (210+ words) Lena Dunham's latest book cements her status as a "generational voice' Lena Dunham "crashed into public consciousness" in 2012 when the first season of her comedy-drama "Girls" " often described as the millennial "Sex and the City" " aired on HBO/Sky Atlantic,…...

6+ hour, 19+ min ago  (140+ words) Greenwich Free Press Come to Greenwich Reform Synagogue, 92 Orchard Street, Cos Cob," on Sunday, May 31, at 10: 00 am to welcome Mark Oppenheimer for a lively discussion of his new book, Judy Blume: A Life. The conversation will be fueled by coffee…...

8+ hour, 53+ min ago  (185+ words) The New Republic Hustvedt's story opens with a blunt, unblinking statement: "I am alive. My husband, Paul Auster, is dead." Time for her has become "deranged beyond recognition": Unmoored and rudderless, adrift within an annihilating sadness, Hustvedt has to learn…...

9+ hour, 7+ min ago  (718+ words) Bashir Badr was seen as one of the most influential voices in modern Urdu poetry. His style was simple yet emotionally strong, and because of that, Urdu shayari felt approachable not only for scholars and literary circles, but also for…...

21+ hour, 49+ min ago  (409+ words) Da Capo Publishing has announced plans to release a definitive Jeff Beck biography, called Blow by Blow: The Jeff Beck Story, on July 14. The release marks the first complete account of the guitarist's life and work, according to the book's…...

14+ hour, 11+ min ago  (1448+ words) I am a midwestern girl with a traveler's heart who has taken every opportunity on a very shoestring budget to travel the world as much as I can." That's how Amanda Hayden describes herself, awfully humble for an award-winning poet…...