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Oct 18, 2024 | 
xeniagazette.com | Emma Minor
By Emma MinorCedarville High SchoolStanding at the starting line, anticipation and nerves boiled in my bones, adrenaline pumped through my veins and I thought to myself, “What did I get myself into?”I was at Centerville’s Saturday Night Lights Cross Country Race (SNL), which is historically known to be a fast, dry course, where almost everyone sets a personal record (PR). Everyone running at SNL expected to run fast this year per usual, but Mother Nature had different plans.
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Oct 17, 2024 | 
publicseminar.org | Emma Minor |Josephine Houman |Alexander Sorondo |Mat Cusick
“Allegory of Sight“ (1659) | Jan van Kessel / CC0 1.0Like William Blake, Becca Rothfeld believes that “the road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.” A widely praised young critic (winner of the National Book Critics Circle Nona Balakian Prize for Criticism and the Robert B. Silvers Prize for Literary Criticism), Rothfeld is the nonfiction book critic for The Washington Post, an editor at the Point, and a contributing editor at Boston Review.
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Sep 23, 2024 | 
publicseminar.org | Claire Potter |Benoit Challand |Emma Minor |Henry M.J. Tonks
Before Vice President Kamala Devi Harris, there was Hillary Clinton—also, Jeannette Rankin, Nellie Tayloe Ross, Geraldine Ferraro, Patsy Mink, Margaret Chase Smith, Nikki Haley, Carol Mosely Braun, and dozens of other women “firsts” in politics. Most importantly, there was a woman who never ran for office, who most of us knew little about until recently, and who was also lifted up by feminism: Shyamala Gopalan. We’ll get back to her. Some of you probably noticed that I left someone out.
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Sep 20, 2024 | 
publicseminar.org | Emma Minor |Josephine Houman |Chloe Cheimets |Miranda Young
The Circus | Ollyy / Shutterstock The Material opens with a classroom of aspiring comedians workshopping their latest creations: “On Wednesdays, three of them had to perform, in turn, a four-to-six-minute routine that the whole class then proceeded to rip apart, joke by joke, beat by beat, until there wasn’t anything left and the budding comedians went home to consider other possible career paths.” This scene is hilariously reminiscent of budding writers sharing their work for the first time,...
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Jun 17, 2024 | 
mainlinetoday.com | Emma Minor
Main Line Today recommendations are objective, unbiased, and curated by the editorial team. If you buy something through our links, we may earn an affiliate commission at no cost to you. Author Nancy M. Schwartz, 55, sat down to read her new book, The Main Line Mutt, to students at David’s Nursery School in Radnor. A hush rippled through the audience of around 100 children and, after finishing her reading, Schwartz was enchanted by the insightful questions posed by her young listeners.
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Jun 10, 2024 | 
mainlinetoday.com | Emma Minor
Last December, Corianne Izzo, 29, was in an Uber with her husband, Tom, 35, on their way to a wedding when she peered out the car window and told him something that had been on her mind for a while. “I feel like I should go for it and jump into this company idea.” There was a pause before he replied, “Let’s do it.”That wedding was especially memorable for the pair as they celebrated their excitement on the dance floor for what lay ahead.
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May 14, 2024 | 
publicseminar.org | Claire Potter |Ann Hood |Emma Minor |Adam Tooze
Picture this: it’s 1936, the depths of the Great Depression in New York City, and you are a bright, Jewish, first-generation American man. You are a teenager, maybe even as young as fifteen or sixteen, from the Lower East Side, Brownsville, Brooklyn, or the Bronx. You’re smart, you’ve finished high school, and what your parents want more than anything else is for you to get a college degree and be a professional, not a garment worker or shopkeeper like they are.
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May 13, 2024 | 
publicseminar.org | Ann Hood |Emma Minor |Evangeline Riddiford Graham |Helen Schulman
Neapolitan Nativity scene in the Palau March Museum (2016) | Nick Richards / CC BY-SA 2.0Ann Hood is the author of a dozen books of memoir and fiction, including the best-selling novels The Book That Matters Most and The Knitting Circle, establishing herself as a formidable voice in contemporary literature. She shares this wealth of knowledge as a professor of creative writing at The New School, helping students find their own writing voices.
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May 2, 2024 | 
publicseminar.org | Mitchell Abidor |Marija Kavtaradze |Emma Minor |T. Alexander Aleinikoff
Film still from Slow (2024) | Dir. Marija KavtaradzėEditorial note: This interview contains spoilers. Slow, Lithuanian director Marija Kavtaradzė’s latest film, recounts a romance between Elena, a modern dancer, and Dovydas, a Lithuanian Sign Language interpreter. When they meet during a dance class for deaf adolescents, they seem to be headed for young love. But events take an unexpected turn when Dovydas informs Elena that he is asexual, not attracted to anyone of either sex.
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Apr 17, 2024 | 
mainlinetoday.com | Emma Minor
Twenty One Pips is putting all the cards on the table this spring in Ardmore as owner Matt Hendricks announced a series of updates to the business. Beyond a new food and drinks menu, there’s the addition of a gaming “parlor” on-site—just in time for the busy spring season. “When guests come through our door, we want to offer them the best of all worlds—great food, quality cocktails, ample spirit-free beverages, hundreds of new board games, and elite vibes,” says Hendricks.
