Devil in a Blue Dress 5th June 2020
‘I need to find somebody and I might need a little help looking…’ The summer of ’48 in the city of Angels and there’s heat on the streets when Daphne Monet hits the sidewalk. Heat when she disappears with...
Blogs in June 2020
The Tortilla Curtain 5th June 2020
Topanga Canyon is home to two couples on a collision course. Los Angeles liberals Delaney and Kyra Mossbacher lead an ordered sushi-and-recycling existence in a newly gated hilltop community: he a sensitive nature writer, she an obsessive realtor. Mexican...
The Last Days of Pompeii 5th June 2020
The Last Days of Pompeii is a novel written by the baron Edward Bulwer-Lytton in 1834. The novel was inspired by the painting The Last Day of Pompeii by the Russian painter Karl Briullov, which Bulwer-Lytton had seen in...
Navigate Your Stars 5th June 2020
‘As an adult, I learned this: persist. Work hard.’ ‘Face rejection, weather the setbacks, until you meet the gatekeeper who will open a door for you.’ Jesmyn Ward grew up in a poor, rural community in Mississippi. Today, as...
The Octopus: A Story of California 5th June 2020
Like the tentacles of an octopus, the tracks of the railroad reached out across California, as if to grasp everything of value in the state. Based on an actual, bloody dispute between wheat farmers and the Southern Pacific Railroad...
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