Author of “Dear George, Dear Mary: A Novel of George Washington’s First Love,” Mary Calvi offers readers another fascinating fictional novel crafted from primary source material. “If a Poem Could Live and Breathe,” which was released earlier this year, is at once a historical novel and a romance novel centered on young Theodore Roosevelt and…
Book Review: ‘If a Poem Could Live and Breathe: A Novel of Teddy Roosevelt’s First Love’
CMT and Budweiser: Forcing Wokeness on Consumers
April 11, 2023
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CMT (Country Music Television) embraced drag queens in a recent TV special, and Budweiser picked transgender TikTok star Dylan Mulvaney for a new ad campaign. Neither move was based on consumer demand and increasing sales. High-profile corporations are forgoing common business sense and bending backward to woke ideology—which, at its core, speaks to a repudiation…
Prodigy Toddler’s Past-Life Memories Give Mother Crisis of Faith, Then She Finds Out Who He Was
Cathy Byrd’s son Christian had been enamored with baseball as soon as he could walk. He had a little bat, ball, glove, and even a uniform, and thought about baseball 24 hours a day, Byrd said. The toddler was as obsessed with the sport as he was talented, an early video of him racking up…
TV Docuseries Review: ‘American Manhunt: The Boston Marathon Bombing’
TV-MA | 2h 57min | Documentary, Crime, History | 12 April 2023 (USA) While not nearly as deadly or widespread as the coordinated attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, the bombing of the Boston Marathon on April 15, 2013, nonetheless shook the nation to its core while reminding us that evil never rests; it only takes breaks. As with 2001, the 2013 destruction…
Book Review: ‘100 Greatest Battles’
What are history’s greatest battles? Angus Konstam, author of more than 100 history books, tackles that question with his latest book, “100 Greatest Battles.” The author begins his selection in the fifth century B.C. with the battles of the Greco-Persian Wars, then moves through the next 2,500 years to the battles that made up the…
The Knight in the ‘Canterbury Tales’: An Idealized Medieval Figure
A masterwork of poetic prose and one of the first-ever books written in English, the “Canterbury Tales” displays English cultural history, giving modern readers an insight into medieval society. And what better character to represent the ideal values of 14th-century England than a knight in shining armor? Written by Geoffrey Chaucer from 1387 until his…
The Stars Are Still Shining: Book Life, Education, Culture, and Ideas That Endure
April 11, 2023
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Out of print. Can there be three sadder words for a living author? In 1975, Farrar Straus & Giroux published Larry Woiwode’s “Beyond the Bedroom Wall.” Here was an extraordinary novel over 600 pages long, a tale of heartbreaking beauty written by a young man about a mid-20th-century American family. Novelist John Gardner, a writer who…
Film Review: ‘Acidman’: Hey, Hollywood, Cast Thomas Haden Church in Bigger Movies Already
Not rated | 1h 27m | Drama | March 31, 2023 I’ve been saying it for years: Actor Thomas Haden Church, best known for his supporting role in 2004’s “Sideways,” is cinema’s hidden weapon; a full-fledged mega-movie-star leading-man waiting to happen. Maggie (Dianna Agron) and Lloyd (Thomas Haden Church) are father and daughter, in “Acidman.” (Brainstorm…
The Dandelion as a Symbol of Hope: O. Henry’s Short Story ‘Springtime a la Carte’
Many of us, when we see dandelions, see them as simply weeds. Yet the dandelion is one of the first hopeful signs of spring and one of the most persevering and resilient plants ever. This plant grows almost anywhere. Even in the most desolate places, this little plant seems to grow and flourish. Henry conveys…
Mission San Luis Rey: King of the Missions in Oceanside, California
Commentary Any trip to Europe or other places around the world will probably involve extensive sightseeing of historical landmarks. Even going to a new area of the United States encourages one to visit the historic destinations. We often forget how much historic culture is right in our backyard, or at least in our town or…
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