New Yorker cartoonist Roz Chast’s new book, winner of the Kirkus Prize for nonfiction, literally draws on her parents’ declining health and death to tell a story of caregiving. Source: Must Read: Roz Chast’s Graphic Caregiving Memoir – Next Avenue
Last year Jon Stewart suggested that Twitter is too wordy and he prefers the new social media app “Grunter.” Meanwhile, in real life, newspapers have given way to blogs; the long-form has given way to punchy pith. The age of fast-food journalism is upon us.
San Jose novelist Khaled Hosseini talks about adapting his work for the stage and dealing with Trump’s America. Source: ‘I See Art As a Way for People to Not Think of Each Other in Broad Strokes’
Khaled Hosseini’s bestseller following two women from strikingly different classes will begin its run Feb. 1 at ACT in San Francisco. By ERIKA MILVY JAN. 19, 2017 6 AM PT In a much retweeted curtain-call speech from the Broadway stage in November, “Hamilton” actor Brandon Dixon conveyed
Everyone is talking about this book that came out. Some parents, you hear, are all upset that their kid was assigned to read this in school. Some teachers have gotten into big trouble for assigning it to their students. Some teachers have gotten fired. Some
When Yanna McIntosh takes the stage Sunday for opening night at the Curran theater in San Francisco, she becomes the eighth black actress to play Hermione Granger in “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child.” And, as was just announced, when “Harry Potter und das Verwunschene