Meet Nora McInerny, whose life warrants a second memoir

Posted on April 3, 2019 at 7:45 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

We certainly hope you don’t empathize too closely with podcaster and writer Nora McInerny’s life, but realize many of you...

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New book: First step in overcoming bias is acknowledging it

Posted on April 2, 2019 at 10:00 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Jennifer Eberhardt, a psychology professor at Stanford University and the author of a new book about how we react to...

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Behind this successful monster is a successful woman

Posted on April 1, 2019 at 2:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Every movie comes to fruition thanks to countless workers whose names never make the marquee. The Creature from the Black...

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Author describes the conditions allowing extremism to flourish

Posted on March 30, 2019 at 8:00 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Anyone who consumes daily news probably doesn’t need an expert to tell them that extremism seems to be on the...

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How a therapist experiences being on the shrink's couch

Posted on March 29, 2019 at 2:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Lori Gottlieb has written a book about practicing what she preaches. Gottlieb, a psychotherapist, decided to seek therapy herself after...

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Essay collection describes being black in a white world

Posted on March 28, 2019 at 12:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

The ability to trade places with someone else to truly understand their experience is, currently, limited to fiction. But in its...

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Author Q&A: Lizzi Tremayne

Posted on March 28, 2019 at 8:00 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Nonfiction and historical fiction author Lizzi Tremayne's photo and website URL.

Author interview with historical fiction writer Lizzi Tremayne, who's also an equine veterinarian

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New book examines the role we all played in slavery

Posted on March 27, 2019 at 8:03 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

The Civil War, as taught to schoolchildren, is very cut-and-dry. Northerners were opposed to slavery; the South supported it. But...

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Did you know data can be biased?

Posted on March 26, 2019 at 8:38 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

If you follow literary news or book-themed news sources, chances are you’ve seen the Emilia Report on gender coverage in...

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Laila Lalami on why her new novel needed 9 narrators

Posted on March 25, 2019 at 10:00 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Laila Lalami’s new novel, The Other Americans, relies on nine different narrators to tell the story. Lalami explained to NPR’s...

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