At the end of March, Alice Quinn, the former executive director of the Poetry Society of America, emailed 125 poets across the United States, asking if any of them had written verses reflecting on life during a pandemic. Responses flooded in. Forty days later, Ms. Quinn had compiled a book …
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Ask a bookworm why they love to read, and you might witness a wistful gaze into the distance as they gush about the wonders of getting lost in another world. As far as book lovers go, Damien Poh is a class example. He even vividly remembers the first book he …
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The “Books with Impact” series takes a deeper look at specific books that have had a profound impact on my financial, professional, and personal growth by extracting specific points of advice from those books and looking at how I’ve applied them in my life with successful results. The previous entry …
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If you’re looking for context, history or scientific information about the spread of disease, these books are a good place to start. AIDS ‘And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic,’ by Randy Shilts As Shilts writes in the prologue of his award-winning 1987 book: “The story …
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What’s inside? Here are the questions answered in today’s reader mailbag, boiled down to summaries of five or fewer words. Click on the number to jump straight down to the question.1. Tax refund concern2. Stay at home decision3. Hanging your clothes to dry4. My price book5. Don’t make retirement your …
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