Patti Smith’s mesmerizing new memoir looks back in wonder — and sorrow

Patti Smith, the celebrated rock poet who won a National Book Award for ‘Just Kids,’ revisits her hard-scrabble childhood, success and the loss of her husband, Fred Sonic Smith, in 'Bread of Angels.' ...
CIO

20 AI workflow tools for adding intelligence to business processes

Looking to unlock deeper data-driven insights or to build more intelligent business process automations? These popular tools ...

Margaret Atwood didn’t want to write a memoir. Thank goodness she did it anyway.

Atwood's 'Book of Lives' has to be the most spectacular, hilarious, and generous autobiography of the last quarter century — ...
The Poynter Institute for Media Studies

How do you get the story? ‘You listen.‘

From person-to-person coaching and intensive hands-on seminars to interactive online courses and media reporting, Poynter helps journalists sharpen skills and elevate storytelling throughout their ...

TOM’S CROSSING, by Mark Z. Danielewski

It’s no spoiler to reveal that Tom dies of cancer early in the story but returns as a ghost seen and heard only by Kalin. In ...
Education Week

Novels vs. Excerpts: What to Know About a Big Reading Debate

It’s well-documented that all Americans—not just kids—are reading less in their leisure time than in decades past. The share ...
The New Yorker

Time out for Virginia Woolf—an Ozark Drama—Mr. Mcfee

Such bitter reveries as these prevent me from submitting an unreservedly enthusiastic report on Virginia Woolf’s “Flush,” which Harcourt, Brace publish this week in a charming illustrated edition. If ...

Anand Teltumbde’s The Cell And The Soul Highlights Urgent Need For Prisons Reforms In India

Anand Teltumbde’s book offers us a significant insight into prisons, those who run them and how they contribute to the ...
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Fed's beige book: Economic activity little changed from previous report

CNBC's Steve Liesman reports on news regarding the Federal Reserve. George Santos' prison sentence commuted, to be released 'immediately': Trump KISS rocker Ace Frehley remembered by bandmates Gene ...
The Atlantic

The Writing-Advice Book That Teaches Us How to Read

Listen to more stories on the Noa app. “A writer,” Saul Bellow once observed, “is a reader moved to emulation.” But what if it’s also the other way around? What if, when we think about writing, we are ...
WSAW

Young Wausau readers learn what it takes to write a book

WAUSAU, Wis. (WSAW) - Students from John Muir and Horace Mann Middle Schools are learning about what it takes to write a book. Authors Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin stopped by the schools Friday to ...
Ars Technica

Nearly 80% of Americans want Congress to extend ACA tax credits, poll finds

According to new polling data, nearly 80 percent of Americans support extending Affordable Care Act (ACA) enhanced premium tax credits, which are set to expire at the end of this year—and are at the ...