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Una bloguera recomienda leer libros sobre intereses personales, sin presión y considerar comprar libros de segunda mano en español.
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Some of those tips: people should focus on reading books about topics they’re interested in, put less pressure on themselves, and, if they’re bilingual, try to find books of another language online.
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For more than 50 years, Beatrice Trum Hunter wrote about food and nutrition. Before there was Diet for a Small Planet, or Moosewood cookbooks; and long…
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Alexander Chee is a careful craftsman of language. As we came to find out, when we talked to him from Argot Studios in NYC, he is as measured, unassuming…
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Tom Perrotta is the author behind, among others, Little Children, The Abstinence Teacher, and The Leftovers, now a hit HBO drama which he co-writes.…
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The Luddites led a violent labor movement against 19th century technologies that threatened their jobs - today we use the label to describe people who…
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Debunking a Literary Myth: The Great American (Drunk) WriterOn January 16, 1920, Americans took their last legal drink for 13 years. In New York City, gadflies wore black clothes and funeral robes in anticipation…
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Following the Iranian revolution, the new regime grew stricter toward women, and cracked down on intellectuals. Our guest today, Azar Nafisi, stayed on in…
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Police shootings and deaths of African-Americans in police custody have prompted calls for a national conversation about race. So, what do well-meaning…
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American author Erskine Caldwell was born in Georgia in 1903. His most famous novel, 1932’s Tobacco Road, boldly addressed the South’s inequalities during…