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Set in South Texas in April of 1963, Silent tells the story of Thomas Riley, a WWI veteran who came back from the Great War middle-aged and silent. He can speak, but he doesn’t speak in this lyric tale of violence, redemption, and love reclaimed in the cruel dry land of Texas.

In The Memory Librarian: And Other Stories of Dirty Computer, singer-songwriter, actor, fashion icon, activist, and worldwide superstar Janelle Monáe brings to the written page the Afrofuturistic world of one of her critically acclaimed albums, exploring how different threads of...

Eleanor lives with prosopagnosia, the inability to recognize a familiar person's face. It causes stress. Acute anxiety. It can make you question what you think you know. When Eleanor walked in on the scene of her capriciously cruel grandmother, Vivianne’s, murder, she came face to face with the killer—a maddening expression that means nothing to someone like her. With each passing day, the horror of having come so close to a murderer—and not knowing if they’d be back—overtakes both her dreams and her waking moments, thwarting her perception of reality.

“This is the book all of us Mississippi writers, dead and alive, need to read. It is indeed a strange but glorious sensation to see your literary and geographic lineage so beautifully and rigorously explored and valued as it's still being created.” —Kiese Laymon, author of Heavy: An...

In The Changing Face of the Workplace, the editors of Fast Company examine how work and the workplace will be forever changed by the pandemic. Through engaging interviews with business thought leaders, CEOs, technologists, workplace experts, and human behavior researchers, listeners learn how societal and demographic shifts - and the evolving relationship between companies and employees - are shaping the workforce.

According to those in the know, the only requirement of a good podcast is to be passionate about the subject matter. I am author Clare Cinnamon, with six popular published romance-suspense books in tow. Second only to my writing is my passion for travel. So simply put, you are listening to “A Writer Hits the Road.” Join me on this podcast journey. It’s about travel facts and travel myths, hot spots and hot plots, storybooks and developing story lines, real people seeing real things, and fictitious people doing interesting things. The reveal of truth and fantasy, the weaving of two great ...

Travel writing has to be one of the most sought after jobs on the planet. The romance of wanderlusting around the world, jotting down your thoughts and discoveries in a battered old Moleskine notebook, and getting paid for it. But romanticism aside… what about the actual job? Pitching. Editors. Writing. Technique. Resources. Packing. Cliches. What does a life in Travel writing really look like, what does it feel like? U.S.-born and London-based Nicole Trilivas knows the answers to those questions because she's lived them. Still is. A luxury travel specialist, novelist and freelance ...

A Podcast about Italy, travel, writing, books, gardens and food. Celebrates creative living, beautiful conversations and the journeys we need to make along the way. Interest in slow living, slow food, creativity, art, cooking, books and ultimately living the good life!

Dr. Markus McDowell writes multigenre fiction and nonfiction, travel reviews, edits books for other authors, and ghostwrites for nonauthors. He has taught at colleges and universities in the US and Europe and spoken at conferences and retreats around the world. He lives on a 40′ motoryacht in Southern California and travels half the time. When he is not writing or editing, he enjoys hiking, fishing, reading, drinking Scottish whisky and smoking Cuban cigars. He shares a birthday with his favorite author, Ernest Hemingway. Get bonus content on PatreonSupport this show http://...

Dead Writers takes listeners inside famous American authors’ homes. Riffing on literature, home décor, and ghosts, critic Tess Chakkalakal and novelist Brock Clarke, bring great American writers, and the books they wrote, back from the dead.

The official podcast from - and for - The British Guild Of Travel Writers. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Welcome! The purpose of this podcast is to give you, the consumer or new real estate professional, an in depth view into the real estate industry. Each episode will feature either a hyper-local market update or a guest who is a "Rockstar" in their field. I will be interviewing top real estate brokers with eXp Realty & other companies, Loan Originators, Interior Designers, Real Estate Investors, Contractors, Home Inspectors, Home Appraisers & on occcasion local nonforpofits & business owners because a great community is more than the homes within it, it's the people & businesses that live & ...