Amy Wang

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Jan 14, 2025 | nytimes.com | Amy Wang

Two years is roughly how long it takes to achieve moderate fluency in a foreign language, to acquire an associate degree or to gestate an African elephant. This also happens to be the length of time that I recently spent pretending I could walk. My problems began during the winter of 2023, when dingy weather and a depressive fit spurred me to sign up for a half-marathon.

Jan 6, 2025 | oregonlive.com | Amy Wang

When Judith Barrington reflects on her latest book, “Virginia’s Apple: Collected Memoirs,” she thinks of it as daring, revealing, loving and most of all, historic. The book’s 14 short memoirs, most of them previously published separately in literary journals, span much of the 80-year-old writer’s personal history. Born and raised in Brighton, England, she experienced life-altering loss at age 19 when her parents died in a 1963 cruise ship fire.

Nov 19, 2024 | spoonuniversity.com | Amy Wang

You might’ve heard of this exclusive bagel pop-up in Boston, or seen it all over Instagram… This Vermont baker makes small batch bagels with the name Brick Street Bagels! With a long line down the block and bagels that sell out every weekend, Brick Street Bagels typically hosts their pop up in the South End Buttery, a cozy cafe located in Southie.

Nov 17, 2024 | oregonlive.com | Amy Wang

If Mark Herman could be doing whatever he wanted five years from now, he’d be working in a school, teaching music to kids. “It’s the only job I feel like I’ve had where it doesn’t feel like it’s work,” said Herman, who gives ukulele and guitar lessons in between painting houses and taking writing classes at Portland Community College. Music appeals to Herman because “it’s so free and expressive,” he said. “Music for me, as a kid, really helped me through a lot of things.