August 2021

Book Covers: Postcards from the Edge, Edge of Eternity, Woman on the Edge of Time, Gone to Soldiers, Second Generation, A Constellation of Vital Phenomena, How It All Began

6 Degrees of Separation

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This month we start with a bestselling work of autobiographical fiction, Postcards From the Edge (1987) by Carrie Fisher. Wednesday will be the 30th anniversary of my reading it (August 11, 1991). The novel tells the story of 30-year-old actress Suzanne Vale as she goes through drug rehab and tries to put her life back […]

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Oral History Through the Ages Oral history is older than written history. Homer’s early epics the Iliad and the Odyssey were transmitted orally long before they were written down. Here Sarah Rahman describes how oral history has progressed into the present. For centuries the important stories of marginalized peoples have been transmitted orally in the

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