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Local author tackles feminist icon Mary Wollstonecraft - Idaho Press-Tribune Local author tackles feminist icon Mary Wollstonecraft - Idaho Press-Tribune Posted: 22 May 2021 02:09 PM PDT Local author and screenwriter Samantha Silva is having a moment … or two. After dabbling with Hollywood — she's sold film projects to Paramount, Universal, and New Line Cinema, to name a few — she spread her talents around. Her debut novel published in 2017, "Mr. Dickens and His Carol," was widely acclaimed, and she is currently adapting it for the Seattle Repertory Theatre stage. "The Big Burn," a short film she wrote and directed, premiered at the Sun Valley Film Festival in 2018. She's written short fiction and essays that have appeared in One Story and LitHub. In 2020, she was named an Idaho Commission on the Arts Literary Fellow. And on Tuesday, May 25, Silva's second book is being released: "Love and Fur...

WATCH NOW: Thompson Award Finalist: Lauren Ross, Volunteer - Bristol Herald Courier WATCH NOW: Thompson Award Finalist: Lauren Ross, Volunteer - Bristol Herald Courier Posted: 21 May 2021 05:00 AM PDT {{featured_button_text}} Volunteer senior Lauren Ross, who plays soccer and runs track for the Falcons, has many talents, from writing stories to playing music to community activism. Ranked No. 1 in her class, Ross plans to attend East Tennessee State University. David Crigger/Bristol Herald Courier BY TIM HAYES BRISTOL HERALD COURIER CHURCH HILL, Tenn. – When Lauren Ross was in middle school and a group project would require writing of some sort, the eyes of those in the small gathering would immediately glance her way. Lauren Ross - Volunteer High School - Pappy Thompson Finalist "Lauren," the classmates inevitably begged. "Can you write a story for us?" A task that many te...

Shelf Life: Ling Ma - ELLE.com Shelf Life: Ling Ma - ELLE.com Posted: 20 May 2021 06:00 AM PDT Welcome to Shelf Life, ELLE.com's books column , in which authors share their most memorable reads. Whether you're on the hunt for a book to console you, move you profoundly, or make you laugh, consider a recommendation from the writers in our series, who, like you (since you're here), love books. Perhaps one of their favorite titles will become one of yours, too. Severance bookshop.org $15.64 When the pandemic struck, Ling Ma's dystopian Severance (Picador)—about a zombie apocalypse that plagues America following a pandmic—had fresh relevance , not least because she won a Whiting Award in March 2020, when the world went into lockdown. It began as a short story on capitalism and work when Ma was laid off from her job as a Playboy fact-checker. Her unemployment checks were her " arts fellowship ,...