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“One of Us: The Story of Anders Breivik and the Massacre in Norway” by Åsne Seierstad
As is the case for me with most good books, I found myself frequently trying to talk to people about One of Us: The Story of Anders Breivik and the Massacre in Norway…
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The Best Books I Read in 2016
*As a quick note, the links I’ve added for purchasing physical books will direct you to my favorite local indie bookstore in Central North Carolina, Flyleaf Books in Chapel Hill, but finding independent…
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Top 25 #FakeTrumpIntelligenceBriefing Tweets
Nina L. Diamond has been a freelance journalist for more than 30 years with over 1000+ articles and 2 books. Her work has appeared in The Los Angeles Times Magazine, The Chicago Tribune,…
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Know, Love and Hate Your Audience: My Thoughts on Bo Burnham’s “what.” and “Make Happy”
The more blog posts I write, the more aware I become that I have absolutely nothing new to say. Everything I want to say has probably already been written about by more articulate…
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House of the Week: Svenseid Stasjon
This week, I’m in the mood to return to one of my favorite places…Telemark in Norway…the place responsible for creating the musical but dour Solberg clan I’m so proud to belong to. Although…
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Paris Fashion Week Fall & Winter Couture 2016
From the cool comfort of an air-conditioned living room, I have spent the last week…my first week in North Carolina…avidly patrolling fashion news websites in anticipation of all the judgement I would pass…
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“My Last Continent” by Midge Raymond
I’m not giving anything away when I say that My Last Continent by Midge Raymond is a romantic tragedy. Very early on in reading this novel the reader is told that there is…
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House of the Week: Ulster County Edition
This past weekend I went on a day trip to one of my favorite places in the entire world, the Mohonk Mountain House and Preserve. The Mohonk Preserve is the largest visitor and…
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House of the Week: Hazlehurst Greek Revival
This week we are going to Hazlehurst, Mississippi, the birthplace of Robert Johnson…the King of the Delta Blues Singers. Unlikely but amusing legends say Robert made a deal with the devil at the…
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“Wintering” by Peter Geye
Wintering begins when elderly Harry Eide disappears from his sickbed and vanishes into the forbidding, northernmost wilderness that surrounds the town of Gunflint, Minnesota…a wilderness he has known his whole life. He’d done…