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Event Marks PEN America Centenary with Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Margaret Atwood, Jennifer Finney Boylan, Dave Eggers, Ayad Akhtar Reflecting on PEN America's Storied Past, Staunch Advocates of the Freedom to Write Address Dire Threats to Free Expression and What They Mean for the Future (New York, NY) — PEN America presents Words on Fire: Writing, Freedom, and the Future , an afternoon of urgent public conversation on the issues that drive the world's leading free expression advocacy organization in this dire moment. Led by PEN America President Ayad Akhtar and CEO Suzanne Nossel , the event, a highlight of the organization's 100th anniversary year, gathers renowned authors who are at the forefront of fighting for truth, open discourse and unfettered storytelling: Margaret Atwood , Jennifer Finney Boylan , Dave Eggers , and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie . Words on Fire: Writing, Freedom, and the Future takes place on Monday, September 12, from 4-7pm in the Robert H. ...

The young man pulled something from behind both ears. "I can't hear anything without my new hearing aids," said the 32-year-old husband and father. "My body is broken, Doc." Once a fireman and emergency medical technician, he'd had covid more than 18 months before and was nearly deaf. He was also newly suffering from incapacitating anxiety, cognitive impairment and depression. Likewise, a 51-year-old woman told me through tears: "It's almost two years. My old self is gone. I can't even think clearly enough to keep my finances straight." These are real people immersed in the global public health catastrophe of long covid, which the medical world is struggling to grasp and society is failing to confront. As such stories clearly indicate, covid is biologically dangerous long after the initial viral infection. One of the leading hypotheses behind long covid is that the coronavirus is somehow able to establish a reservoir in tissues such as the ...

Ghanaian-American award-winning novelist Yaa Gyasi spoke in front of the UP community on Wednesday, March 10, in the Buckley Center Auditorium as the spring 2022 Schoenfeldt Distinguished Writer.  This year's ReadUP book, "Transcendent Kingdom" is Gyasi's 2010 second novel, which explores Ghanaian immigrants struggling through tensions of science and faith, family and kinship, depression and grief. Yaa Gyasi's newest novel, "Transcendent Kingdom". In a candid and heartwarming lecture, Gyasi explored how her experience of becoming a writer has been influenced by her culture and upbringing while...

OWN's original documentary series Black Love on Saturday (August 27) will end its sixth and final season of chronicling the relationships and lives of celebrity and everyday couples.  Created by married filmmakers Codie and Tommy Oliver, The NAACP Image Awards-nominated series over its run has featured the intimate stories of marriage and love from some of America's favorite Black couples, including Sterling K. Brown and Ryan Michelle Bathe, Grant Hill and Tamia, and Viola Davis and Julius Tennon. Codie Oliver recently talked to Multichannel News about the series' final season as well as the impact Black Love has had on the culture as well as her own relationship. Oliver also talks about future plans for the Black Love franchise in an edited version of the interview that appears below.  MCN: Is the final season of Black Love a bitter/sweet experience for the two of you? Codie Oliver: Definitely. For seven years, we have filmed couples, just the two of ...

A woman has asked Mumsnet for advice on a tricky situation concerning her partner and their female lodger, in a post that begins: "I cannot believe I am typing this." The couple—she is in her early 40s and he is in his early 50s—have one young child. As a favor to a friend, she agreed to take in a young woman as a lodger for a few weeks. The lodger, who works for the friend's business and ordinarily lives overseas, is in her early twenties and "very attractive looking." She added: "My partner is handsome, likeable, warm, engaging. But...He's not George Clooney and he's old." The "weird thing" causing her dilemma is: "If it wasn't so ridiculous I would be sure she had a giant crush on him. She really seems to always want to spend time alone with him, gazes at him constantly and seems somewhat besotted...But surely not." Stock image of a man on his phone while a woman watches him. Research into age-gap relationships does...

Update: Read our review of Haruki Murakami's 1Q84 , his "finest work," according to our reviewer. One of the fall's most hotly anticpated novels (on this continent, at least) is Haruki Murakami's massive new book 1Q84 . The book's release was a publishing event in Japan in June 2009, selling over 100,000 copies there in its first week. Now, after over two years, the three-volume novel (released here in one volume and in the UK in two volumes, with parts one and two translated by Jay Rubin and part three by Philip Gabriel ) will hit shelves. Because of the very long lead time and because Murakami has an engaged and sometimes bilingual fan base, anything you might want to know about the book is available just a Google search away — and fans have tried their hands at translating snippets and sections as well — but until now we haven't gotten a glimpse of how the novel will open, with Murakami's prose rendered in Rubin's translation. As is often...

VICTORIA AVEYARD  is an author and screenwriter, born and raised in a small town in Western Massachusetts. She has a BFA in Writing for Film & Television from the University of Southern California's School of Cinematic Arts. She is the author of the #1 New York Times bestselling and USA Today bestselling series, Red Queen, and #1 New York Times bestsellers Realm Breaker and Blade Breaker. For readers who haven't had a chance to dive into the series, can you give us a quick elevator pitch for your new book, Blade Breaker?  I like to say the REALM BREAKER series is Lord of the Rings meets Guardians of the Galaxy, and Blade Breaker is the natural escalation of book 1. We now know what our heroes are up against, and somehow things only seem to be getting worse. But our not-so-heroes continue to fight, both to save the world, and to save their own skins. You've said that the Realm Breaker series is both a love-letter and loathe-letter...

Although web novels have been around for a while, the readership only boomed in recent years. I remember when it was just Wattpad that was well-known. Now, there are bazillion other web novel websites out there, and it can be difficult to keep track of them. Wondering where to read web novels for free? I've compiled some websites in this post. But first, let's discuss semantics. What is a Web Novel? Along the immense popularity of web novels comes the inevitable confusion as similar terms have popped up. Light novels? Manga? What's the difference? Web novels are mostly works published online, usually on a website. In traditional publishing, we might regard them as self-published works, sans the tangible format. You can think of them as ebooks, but that they're not available in epubs or whatnot. Web novels can be in other languages aside from English. Many stories in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean are also sought-after works. Manga, on the other hand, are ...

Although web novels have been around for a while, the readership only boomed in recent years. I remember when it was just Wattpad that was well-known. Now, there are bazillion other web novel websites out there, and it can be difficult to keep track of them. Wondering where to read web novels for free? I've compiled some websites in this post. But first, let's discuss semantics. What is a Web Novel? Along the immense popularity of web novels comes the inevitable confusion as similar terms have popped up. Light novels? Manga? What's the difference? Web novels are mostly works published online, usually on a website. In traditional publishing, we might regard them as self-published works, sans the tangible format. You can think of them as ebooks, but that they're not available in epubs or whatnot. Web novels can be in other languages aside from English. Many stories in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean are also sought-after works. Manga, on the other hand, are ...

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In our everyday speech, we use sayings naturally — without ever considering that their literal meaning would be incomprehensible for a foreigner learning the language. Are you in a downpour? Then it's raining cats and dogs. Will you care for two matters on the same trip? Then you are killing two birds with one stone. Did you accidentally reveal a confidential tidbit? Then you let the cat out of the bag. In the same way, Mexican Spanish is littered with colorful sayings whose literal meaning may perplex you. Let's unpack seven common sayings, so that they will be at your ready command. 1. Hay pa' aventar pa' arriba. Literal meaning: There is [enough] to throw upwards. The airspace above your home or workplace is infinite. Suppose you were to begin tossing some of your belongings skyward. When would it fill up? Never! That's the idea behind this clever local saying. If you have an excess of something, then the sky's the limit. Example: Después de la bo...

Loving her Louis! Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star Garcelle Beauvais opened up her Louis Vuitton Neverfull MM bag exclusively to Us Weekly , gushing about the iconic purse itself — and all of the goodies inside. The neutral-colored bag — printed with the classic Louis Vuitton checkered pattern — "is great for the summer because I love the lightness of it," the reality star, 55, gushed to Us . "I have the darker one, but I really wanted something light for the summer that goes with everything." While this specific Louis is a medium, it certainly has more than enough room to carry all the essentials — and more. "I love big bags. I'm a big bag girl," the Love Me As I Am author revealed. "You'll only see me with a small bag if it's nighttime." Beauvais — who is mom of 14-year-old twins Jax and Jaid with husband Michael Nilon , as well as 31-year-old son Oliver with ex-husband Daniel Sauders — shared a relatable t...

"The city should have these things working. That's what they supposed to be up there for, to protect the citizens in all areas any way possible." — Tamara Syas, niece of Joseph Syas, who was killed near a non-working police camera last May. (Monday, The Dallas Morning News) "We're constantly looking at what extreme weather may lead to , whether it be power demand, extreme heat, extreme cold, heavy water or even drought." — Gov. Greg Abbott, after signing a disaster declaration for 23 counties affected impacted by Monday's severe flooding , including Dallas County. (Monday, The Dallas Morning News) "Education is a ticket to a better life, but over time, that ticket has become too expensive for too many Americans." — President Joe Biden on Wednesday, as he announced student-loan debt relief for millions of Americans (Wednesday, The Dallas Morning News) "We have a rare opportunity now to observe tracks that are usually under mud and wate...

GM Vishnu Prasanna is India's 33rd grandmaster. He has worked as a second to GM Baskaran Adhiban and has also coached many chess players since 2016 including GM Surya Shekhar Ganguly. India's second-highest-rated player, GM Gukesh D, is also his student and they have been working together for the last five years.  In this interview, Chess.com India talked with Vishnu about his coaching career as well as Gukesh's chess journey. The interview was conducted via a video call, and text has been edited for clarity or length.  Chess.com India: When did you start playing chess?   Vishnu Prasanna: (Laughs.) That was ages ago, maybe two decades ago. When I was about twelve years old, I joined the Solar Chess Club in Mylapore. My father taught me the initial moves. Vishnu Prasanna as a child with his family. Photo: Vishnu Prasanna . Vishnu occupied with chess. Photo: Vishnu Prasanna . When you were growing up as a player, did you ...