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These Brilliant Literary Maps Will Help You Understand Your Favorite Book A lavishly illustrated atlas for Huckleberry Finn and other classics

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 Marissa Fessenden with the Smithsonian Magazine website, on October 27, 2015 combines two of my favorite things, maps and literature, in this article. I know what I am asking Santa for! ~ * ~ These Brilliant Literary Maps Will Help You Understand Your Favorite Book A lavishly illustrated atlas for Huckleberry Finn and other classics … Read more

The New Yorker Editor Who Became a Comic Book Hero

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This article By Eleanor Davis; Interview by Jeff MacGregor is off of the Smithsonian Magazine website, on November 12, 2015. ~ * ~ Comic books? Educational? The very idea is comical to anyone familiar with the 1954 Senate subcommittee investigation that linked juvenile delinquency to horror and crime comics. The politicians dealt the industry a staggering … Read more

And the prize goes to………

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The last time a nonfiction writer won the Nobel Prize for literature was in 1953 by Winston Churchill. So this years winner, journalist Svetlana Alexievich comes as a welcome surprise. She is most famous for Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster  where Alexievich interviewed the innocent people who watched as the Chernobyl … Read more