Elizabeth Smart

Nov 5, 2024 | womensprize.com | Tove Jansson |Elizabeth Smart |Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie |Hilary Mantel

Cariad is the creator and host of the award-winning podcast Griefcast and the smash-hit improv show Austentatious. She has starred in TV shows such as Alan Partridge, Peep Show, Inside No. 9 and featured on Have I Got News For You. Cariad’s first book You Are Not Alone was a New Statesman, The Times and Express book of the year in 2023. Her new children’s book, The Christmas Wish-Tastrophe, is out now.

Oct 23, 2024 | cbc.ca | Elizabeth Smart |Corinna Chong |Jenny Heijun Wills |Andrea Currie

Check out some of the books discussed on national CBC Radio programs between Oct. 15-22, 2024. Bad Land by Corinna ChongBad Land is a novel by Corinna Chong. (Silmara Emde, Arsenal Pulp Press)Heard on: Bookends with Mattea RoachIn , Regina's brother shows up on her doorstep with his six-year-old daughter after seven years, interrupting her quiet loner life.

Mar 12, 2024 | ksl.com | Elizabeth Smart

Estimated read time: 3-4 minutesSALT LAKE CITY — Tuesday marks 21 years since Elizabeth Smart was found. Smart was kidnapped from her Salt Lake City home as a 14-year-old girl on June 5, 2002. She was missing for nine months until she was found by police in Sandy on March 12, 2003.

Nov 28, 2023 | mercurynews.com | Jamie Gangel |Jeremy Herb |Elizabeth Smart

By Jamie Gangel, Jeremy Herb and Elizabeth Smart | CNNIn her new book, former Rep. Liz Cheney paints a scathing portrait of the Republican Party, condemning her former colleagues and party leaders as “enablers and collaborators,” who after the 2020 election were “willing to violate their oath to the Constitution out of political expediency and loyalty to Donald Trump.”The book, “Oath and Honor,” which was obtained exclusively by CNN ahead of its Dec.

Jul 25, 2023 | lostladiesoflit.com | Kim L. Askew |Elizabeth Smart

When Elizabeth Smart’s 1945 poetic prose novel “By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept” was reissued in 1966, Angela Carter called it "Madame Bovary blasted by lightning," and Morrissey has since credited Smart’s writing as having influenced his lyrics for The Smiths. This week’s guests are biographer Rosemary Sullivan and documentary filmmaker Maya Gallus, both authorities on Smart’s fascinating life and work.