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Doris Kearns Goodwin and Laurie Anderson to receive medals from American Academy of Arts and Letters
Read full article: Doris Kearns Goodwin and Laurie Anderson to receive medals from American Academy of Arts and LettersDoris Kearns Goodwin, Laurie Anderson and the president of the Harlem School of the Arts, James C.
Julie Otsuka, Ed Yong win Carnegie Medals for Excellence
Read full article: Julie Otsuka, Ed Yong win Carnegie Medals for ExcellenceJulie Otsukaโs novel โThe Swimmers,โ in which a group of swimmers collectively narrate their daily routines and what happens when theyโre disrupted, has won the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction.
Biden warns of US peril from Trump's 'dagger' at democracy
Read full article: Biden warns of US peril from Trump's 'dagger' at democracyPresident Joe Biden is forcefully accusing Donald Trump and his supporters of holding a โdagger at the throat of democracyโ with his election lies that sparked last yearโs deadly assault on the U.S. Capitol.
Library association awards Carnegie medals to McBride, Giggs
Read full article: Library association awards Carnegie medals to McBride, GiggsThis combination image shows "Deacon King Kong" by James McBride, left, and "Fathoms: The World in the Whale" by Rebecca Giggs. The American Library Association has announced its winners of the Carnegie medals for literary excellence, awarding McBride in the fiction category and Giggs in nonfiction. (Riverhead Books, left, and Simon & Schuster via AP)NEW YORK โ This year's winners of the Carnegie medals for fiction and nonfiction, presented by the American Library Association, have each checked out a few books in their time. But in Philly, you can,โ explained McBride, whose novel last year was chosen by Oprah Winfrey for her book club. With a grant from the Carnegie Corporation of New York, the library association established the award in 2012, with winners in each category receiving $5,000.
Biden takes the helm, appeals for unity to take on crises
Read full article: Biden takes the helm, appeals for unity to take on crisesPresident Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden watch fireworks light up the sky from the White House, Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2021, in Washington. Both he, Harris and their spouses walked the last short part of the route to the White House after an abridged parade. At Biden's invitation, congressional leaders from both parties bowed their heads in prayer in the socially distanced service a few blocks from the White House. The Bidens ended their evening watching fireworks from a White House balcony. Trump did adhere to one tradition and left a personal note for Biden in the Oval Office.
Batter Up! Baseball, soundtrack of summer, is back - sort of
Read full article: Batter Up! Baseball, soundtrack of summer, is back - sort ofThe Los Angeles Dodgers play the Los Angeles Angels at sunset during the fifth inning of a preseason baseball game, Tuesday, July 21, 2020, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)
Batter Up! Baseball, soundtrack of summer, is back - sort of
Read full article: Batter Up! Baseball, soundtrack of summer, is back - sort ofThe Los Angeles Dodgers play the Los Angeles Angels at sunset during the fifth inning of a preseason baseball game, Tuesday, July 21, 2020, in Los Angeles. Rather than keeping players and club personnel sealed in a bubble environment, baseball teams will fly around the country, raising more health concerns. โGoing to be 2020 coronavirus baseball,โ Yankees star pitcher Gerrit Cole said. Los Angeles ace Clayton Kershaw had hoped to take part, but he was scratched from the opener because of back issues. โItโs that sound, itโs the summer sound.โ___AP Baseball Writers Ronald Blum and Janie McCauley and AP Sports Writers Howard Fendrich and Joe Reedy contributed to this report.
History channel working on doc series with Bill Clinton
Read full article: History channel working on doc series with Bill ClintonFILE - This Dec. 10, 2019 file photo shows former U.S. President Bill Clinton during a visit to Edward A. Reynolds West Side High School in New York. The History channel says it is making a documentary series on the American presidency that former President Bill Clinton will help shape and participate in. The series will explore the history of the presidency and the struggle for a more perfect union. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)NEW YORK โ The History channel says former President Bill Clinton will help shape and be a part of an upcoming documentary series on the American presidency. It is being produced internally by the History channel and is expected to air in early 2021.
Out of pandemic crisis, what could a new New Deal look like?
Read full article: Out of pandemic crisis, what could a new New Deal look like?The New Deal was a try-anything moment during the Great Depression that remade the role of the federal government in American life. And as the U.S. confronts its most profound financial crisis since the Depression, brought on by the most deadly pandemic in a century, there are early soundings of a larger question: What would a โnewโ New Deal look like? โResponding to the crisis without also making our economy more resilient against future shocks would be a mistake,โ she said. Even New Deal programs that improved lives did not insulate the American people. And at the end of 2019, no major economist forecasting this year envisioned that a pandemic would throw the world into turmoil.
Celebrated book editor Alice Mayhew dies at age 87
Read full article: Celebrated book editor Alice Mayhew dies at age 87NEW YORK, N.Y. โ Alice Mayhew, the celebrated and influential editor of political and historical works whose authors ranged from Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein to Taylor Branch and Doris Kearns Goodwin, died Tuesday at age 87. Simon & Schuster, which she joined in 1971, announced that she died โpeacefullyโ at her home in Manhattan. Her death came days after the loss of another Simon & Schuster institution, novelist Mary Higgins Clark, who died last week. In a telephone interview Tuesday, Woodward told The Associated Press that he and Mayhew last spoke about 10 days ago. 'โAlong with her many successes, Mayhew was involved with publications that were challenged and even withdrawn.