Category: Random
Me talkin to myself
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In 2025, Publishers Weekly estimated that about 4 million books were published in the United States, about half of them self-published. The rest came from small independent publishers or from the megapublishers known as the “Big Five” in the world of books. Twenty years ago the number of new releases annually was somewhere below 300,000.…
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My mother Irene believed deeply in family. By that I mean she sought to keep her far-flung brood in touch with each other, helping us remember our shared experience and our family history. At one time, I lived in Alaska, my brother lived in California, one sister lived in Boston and the other in British Columbia. Irene…
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I didn’t know when I started reading A Tale for the Time Being that I would like it. Recommended to me by a dancer friend in my Nia community—someone I trust because she is smart, funny and kind—the book began slowly, but I warmed to it, became intrigued and then mesmerized and then had to…
