Scott Shane
Freelance Contributor at Freelance
New book: FLEE NORTH: A Forgotten Hero and the Fight for Freedom in Slavery's Borderland. Before: New York Times (15 years) and Baltimore Sun (21 years).
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Feb 10, 2024 |
journalgazette.net | Carolyn Tillery |Doug Melville |Maria Smilios |Scott Shane
These works of Black history are newly available through the Allen County Public Library. “African-American Heritage Cookbook: Traditional Recipes and Fond Remembrances from Alabama’s Renowned Tuskegee Institute”by Carolyn Quick Tillery From the renowned Tuskegee Institute of Alabama, founded by Booker T.
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Nov 8, 2023 |
link.newyorker.com | Scott Shane |Kenneth D. Miller |Mona Susan Power |Anna Holmes
Nonfiction | In the eighteen-forties, Thomas Smallwood, an educated free Black man, and Charles Torrey, a white abolitionist, began working together to free slaves. From Washington, D.C., they organized escapes and established the network of allies that Smallwood named the Underground Railroad.
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Oct 31, 2023 |
yearendlists.com | Catherine Lacey |Andrew Leland |Scott Shane |Benjamin Labatut
Publishers Weekly: 10 Best Books of 2023 [see also 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2019 • 2018 • 2017 • 2016 • 2015 • 2014 • 2013 • 2012 • 2011] Kirkus Prize: Fiction 2023 [see also Nonfiction 2023 • Nonfiction 2022 • Fiction 2022 • Nonfiction 2021 • Fiction 2021 • Nonfiction 2020 • Fiction 2020 • Nonfiction 2019 • Fiction 2019 • Nonfiction 2018 • Fiction 2018 • Nonfiction 2017 • Fiction 2017 • Nonfiction 2016 • Fiction 2016 • Nonfiction 2015 • Fiction 2015 • Nonfiction 2014 • Fiction 2014] Kirkus...
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Oct 20, 2023 |
nextbigideaclub.com | Meg Kissinger |John Sargent |Scott Shane |Taras Grescoe
Taras Grescoe is a journalist, travel writer, and author of several nonfiction titles, such as Straphanger, Bottomfeeder, and The End of Elsewhere. He is also a contributor to an assortment of publications, including the New York Times Magazine, National Geographic Traveler, and The Wall Street Journal. Below, Taras shares five key insights from his new book, The Lost Supper: Searching for the Future of Food in the Flavors of the Past.
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Sep 19, 2023 |
kirkusreviews.com | Scott Shane |Robert Greene |Elie Wiesel |Marion Wiesel
If the authors are serious, this is a silly, distasteful book. If they are not, it’s a brilliant satire. The authors have created a sort of anti-Book of Virtues in this encyclopedic compendium of the ways and means of power. Everyone wants power and everyone is in a constant duplicitous game to gain more power at the expense of others, according to Greene, a screenwriter and former editor at Esquire (Elffers, a book packager, designed the volume, with its attractive marginalia).
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RT @Bing_Chris: An old article that's still worth the read and perhaps increasingly important as we move forward (written by @ScottShaneNYT…
Thanks to the NYT Book Review for the shout-out for my book FLEE NORTH in its Paperback Row column! Just in time for last-minute holiday giving....And to Gabrielle Dean of Johns Hopkins U for her moving account of what she chose as her favorite read of 2024. Many thanks to her! https://t.co/iRLCi553Z2