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Jul 13, 2024 | 
msn.com | Valorie Clark
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Jul 13, 2024 | 
latimes.com | Valorie Clark
Book Review Alexander at the End of the World: The Forgotten Final Years of Alexander the Great By Rachel KousserMariner Books: 416 pages, $35If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.org, whose fees support independent bookstores. Alexander, the brilliant young Macedonian king remembered as “the Great,” has frequently been compared to the mythic Greek hero Achilles. Both were beloved by their soldiers and almost invincible.
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Jun 20, 2024 | 
roadbook.com | Valorie Clark
Having housed and inspired some of the world’s most acclaimed writers, discover LA’s larger-than-life literary heritage, iconic settings and first-class bookstores across the city’s most culturally significant neighbourhoodsLos Angeles is many things to many people, a destination that has inspired generations of dreamers to head west in pursuit of their destinies.
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May 24, 2024 | 
latimes.com | Valorie Clark
Book Review The Incorrigibles: A Novel By Meredith JaegerDutton: 368 pages, $18If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.org, whose fees support independent bookstores. Meredith Jaeger’s fourth novel, “The Incorrigibles,” gives us her best rendering of California’s past. The author is a California native with a penchant for immersive period depictions of some of the state’s most desirable cities: San Francisco, Santa Cruz, Los Angeles.
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Mar 18, 2024 | 
crimereads.com | Valorie Clark
Any study of Aphra Behn is really a study of shifting disguises and political guesswork. She is remembered in history as the first woman to make a living by writing in English, all the way back in the seventeenth century. Few know that she became a writer while exploring her first intriguing career: Spy for the British crown. Fittingly for a spy, Behn was secretive and her reputed garrulity among friends did not extend to anything autobiographical for future generations to rely on.
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Mar 18, 2024 | 
lithub.com | Valorie Clark
Any study of Aphra Behn is really a study of shifting disguises and political guesswork. She is remembered in history as the first woman to make a living by writing in English, all the way back in the seventeenth century. Few know that she became a writer while exploring her first intriguing career: Spy for the British crown. Fittingly for a spy, Behn was secretive and her reputed garrulity among friends did not extend to anything autobiographical for future generations to rely on.
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Mar 15, 2024 | 
teenvogue.com | Valorie Clark
Biographies always overlook people, especially the people who enable a subject’s life. “The help,” as they are often reduced to, are erased from the narrative. This is so true in stories of groundbreaking medicine, where rounds of anonymized clinical trials necessarily obscure the identities of people that medicine is tested on. Jonas Salk did incredible things for our world, revolutionizing medicine by helping to create the flu and polio vaccine and transforming vaccine preparation in general.
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Mar 13, 2024 | 
newsbreak.com | Valorie Clark
Welcome to NewsBreak, an open platform where diverse perspectives converge. Our contributor network of tens of thousands of creators appears alongside stories from established publications and journalists. We empower individuals to share insightful viewpoints through short posts and comments. It’s essential to note our commitment to transparency: our Terms of Use acknowledge that our services may not always be error-free, and our Community Standards emphasize our discretion in enforcing policies.
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Mar 13, 2024 | 
atlasobscura.com | Valorie Clark
Excerpted and adapted with permission from Unruly Figures: Twenty Tales of Rebels, Rulebreakers, and Revolutionaries You’ve (Probably) Never Heard OfLike many Indigenous peoples’ stories, those of Tarenorerer were dismissed by colonizers. Large swaths of her record are lost to time. Even her name is often obscured by the name white enslavers gave her: Walyer. It’s hard to say why they changed her name to this.
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Mar 7, 2024 | 
writeordie101.substack.com | Courtney Kocak |Paulina Pinsky |Valorie Clark |Jeannine Ouellette
Write or Die 101 is an experiment in affordable education for writers. For $10 per month, you’ll receive a variety of month-long workshops by experienced instructors. This month’s workshop, Launch & Grow a Newsletter to Boost Your Writing Career, is from Courtney Kocak. When you sign up today, your full first month’s membership payment goes to them. Today’s lesson is free.
