Tag: books
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Liesl Shurtliff writes Li’l Red into her fractured fairy tales
Once upon a time, there was a girl who loved to read Grimm’s Fairy Tales and play in the woods. This girl grew up to be a best-selling author who loved to tell variations on classic fairy tales.
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Island of seduction
The way a kid feels that day before the last day of school before summer vacation? That’s the way Fire Island fans feel before the long Memorial Day weekend. The way a kid feels that day before the first day of the new school year? That’s the way Fire Island fans feel about Labor Day…
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Meanwhile in Mecca: an illustrated story of San Francisco
The place “has always been a refuge for anyone to come to, whatever status in society. For people, intellectuals, pseudo-intellectuals, for lonely people. For every walk of life.” Wendy MacNaughton is referring to the San Francisco Public Library, maybe not a stop on every vacationer’s itinerary, but the population of the library “mirrors the population…