I first read Sophie’s Choice in 1985, when I was eighteen years old. It was a birthday gift from my…
Elena Ferrante’s third book of the series, Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay, reads much longer than the first…
Ferrante’s second book, The Story of a New Name begins with an important reveal that goes on to shape the…
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Anthony Doerr is a writer who started his writing career with short stories and progressed to novels.He has written several,…
This Won’t Take But a Minute, Honey, essays on writing by Steve Almond is a very flavorful set of small…
Bharati Mukherjee, born on July 27th, 1940, in Calcutta is considered the matriarch of diaspora fiction. Her book, The Middleman…
Dr. Paul Kalanithi, a neurosurgeon and Chief Resident at Stanford University Hospital, a graduate of Stanford University with multiple degrees,…
The film The Pale Blue Eye, starring Christian Bale and Harry Melling (as Edgar Allen Poe) is a story that…
There are ways and means to give and support, to care and to help. We must trust and believe, open…
Yes, but only if you leave your ego at the door of the Yogashala. That is not only the prevailing…