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Listen now: A look back at the news in our latest 'Long Story Short' podcast - Bloomington Pantagraph Listen now: A look back at the news in our latest 'Long Story Short' podcast - Bloomington Pantagraph Posted: 27 Feb 2021 08:54 AM PST {{featured_button_text}} Aria Brown, 15, has been recording and posting cover songs in in her bedroom at her home in Decatur. The freshman at Eisenhower High School has a small recording studio in her room. She posts her recordings on her Youtube channel under the keyword AB10 or search for Aria Brown. CLAY JACKSON, HERALD & REVIEW Sierra Henry Reporters Kelsey Watznauer and Sierra Henry hit all highlights in local government, education, public safety, and more from Lee Enterprises Central Illinois journalists. This week's episode features a profile on Aria Brown, a 15-year-old Decatur high school student, who is a talented musician a...

Danielle Evans’s Poignant Histories of the Present - The Nation Danielle Evans’s Poignant Histories of the Present - The Nation Posted: 25 Feb 2021 02:52 AM PST The pedestal where a statue dedicated to Robert E. Lee and Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson stood in Baltimore, Md., 2017. (Photo by Win McNamee / Getty Images) There is a rhythm to Danielle Evans's writing that can, on the surface, betray the tensions roiling beneath the stories she tells. She writes about the haunting nature of memory, grief, and desire with a piercing subtlety that refuses any sort of cliché terms of closure. Readers familiar with Evans's first short-story collection, Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self , will recognize this quality. Those stories are replete with characters searching for themselves, coming of age, and daring to make their way forward even when their pasts pose the greatest of obstacles. In the novella and six short stories con...

Author, professor James Hoggard dies at 79 - Times Record News Author, professor James Hoggard dies at 79 - Times Record News Pandemic diversion is one for the books - clearcreekcourant Your Anti-Racism Reading List Isn't Complete Without Fiction About Black People - HuffPost Author, professor James Hoggard dies at 79 - Times Record News Posted: 24 Feb 2021 11:02 AM PST [unable to retrieve full-text content] Author, professor James Hoggard dies at 79    Times Record News Pandemic diversion is one for the books - clearcreekcourant Posted: 23 Feb 2021 02:44 PM PST A man past sixty living alone with a small dog walks to his guest room where a little library of fiction is kept and scans the spines for an option to read as the second year of a pandemic has him climbing the walls like Gregor Samsa. See how many of the titles he had to choose from you can name. For a complete list, write ...

Author Harry Mark Petrakis, ‘one of the greatest,’ dies at 97 - Chicago Sun-Times Author Harry Mark Petrakis, ‘one of the greatest,’ dies at 97 - Chicago Sun-Times Posted: 03 Feb 2021 12:00 AM PST When Harry Mark Petrakis began his writing career imagining characters he later admitted knowing little about, he earned nothing for 10 years but rejection notes. But when he turned his eye to his community of immigrants in Chicago's Greektown and wrote a short story about an old Greek hot dog vendor, he finally sold a story in 1956 to the Atlantic magazine. The story, "Pericles on 31 st Street," launched a long career that made him one of Chicago's best-known authors. Mr. Petrakis, author of 24 books, most of them fiction, and numerous short stories, died Tuesday at his longtime home near Chesterton, Indiana, of what relatives said was old age. He was 97. "He passed away imperceptibly, like the flutter of a sparrow'...

Whodunnit? Mystery novelist Barbara Neely did – very, very well in fact - LebTown Whodunnit? Mystery novelist Barbara Neely did – very, very well in fact - LebTown Posted: 22 Feb 2021 04:47 AM PST Suspense. Drama. Intrigue. Everybody loves a good mystery. Barbara Neely was a woman of mystery. Neely was one of the greatest mystery authors of our time. But because few details exist, her time in Lebanon is shrouded in mystery. Advertisement Centered around writing mystery novels and helping others, Neely led a long, productive and interesting life. And certainly everything she did and held dear to her heart was influenced by growing up in Lebanon. Neely died last year on March 2, 2020. She was 78. Her obituary appeared in such prestigious publications as The New York Times , The Washington Post , The Boston Globe , and The Los Angeles Times . "I would certainly say she was fearless," said Bryan Neely, Barbara's young...