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Oct 18, 2024 | julieebeck.beehiiv.com | Wallace Stegner |Julie Beck

There was a huge solar storm last week and we saw the aurora in MARYLAND of all places. That has nothing to do with this newsletter, but it’s a nice picture.

Aug 15, 2024 | wildsam.com | Jean Craighead George |Michael Chabon |Jared Phillips |Wallace Stegner

Before you’re all packed and the route is plugged in, you have to tackle the biggest question of all: what book(s) are we bringing on the journey? Any American road trip traces storied territory. Every state holds landscapes that inspire writers. Could a cross-country reading list do justice to this creative treasure trove? At Wildsam, we teamed up with our friends at Lit Hub—the internet’s leading source of news and analysis about writing, books and literary culture—to see what we could do.

Jul 3, 2024 | inquirer.com | Susan Snyder |Wallace Stegner

John A. Fry, who likely will be named Temple University’s next president on Wednesday, was born in Brooklyn and got his bachelor’s degree from Lafayette College. Fry, 64, also has an MBA from New York University’s Stern School of Business and started his career, not in academia, but in the auditing division of what is now KPMG, and then moved to Coopers & Lybrand to run a Philadelphia consulting operation dealing with colleges.

Mar 14, 2024 | citylights.com | Wallace Stegner

From the “dean of Western writers” (The New York Times) and the Pulitzer Prize winning-author of Angle of Repose and Crossing to Safety, a fascinating look at the old American West and the man who prophetically warned against the dangers of settling it In Wallace Stegner recounts the sucesses and frustrations of John Wesley Powell, the distinguished ethnologist and geologist who explored the Colorado River, the Grand Canyon, and the homeland of Indian tribes of the American Southwest. A...

Mar 27, 2023 | citylifestyle.com | Lucy Probert |Clare Pooley |Kevin Wilson |Wallace Stegner

Read on to see how books can teach us the many forms friendship bonds can takeFiction can be a valuable escape, but it can also be a way for readers to gain insights and new understandings into their own lives. “Books are a way to get to know the people you’re reading about and in turn learn more about yourself,” says Ridgewood’s Stacey Loscalzo, founder of the StaceyLoscalzoReads.com, a gathering place for story lovers. Here are some of her recommendations to explore friendships through fiction.