Toni Morrison (born Chloe Ardelia Wofford, February 18, 1931) was an American novelist, essayist, editor, teacher and professor emeritus at Princeton University. Morrison won the Pulitzer Prize and the American Book Award in 1988 for Beloved (1987). The novel was adapted into a film of the same name (starring Oprah Winfrey and Danny Glover) in 1998. Morrison was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993. In 1996, the National…
NATIONAL WELLNESS MONTH All during August, National Wellness Month focuses on self-care, managing stress and promoting healthy routines. Create wholesome habits in your lifestyle all month long and see how much better you feel! Research has shown self-care helps manage stress and promotes happiness. Whether you challenge yourself to a new yoga pose or try…
Summer reading isn’t just for kids! Homewood Public Library has an adult summer reading program, too. Navigate to Homewood.beanstack.com and sign up (or log in) to start logging the adult books (fiction and/or nonfiction; audio, print, or ebook) that you read between June 3 and August 4, 2019. Each adult book logged earns a badge….
Summer reading isn’t just for kids! Homewood Public Library has an adult summer reading program, too. Navigate to Homewood.beanstack.com and sign up (or log in) to start logging the adult books (fiction and/or nonfiction; audio, print, or ebook) that you read between June 3 and August 4, 2019. Each adult book logged earns a badge….
The world of literary journalism lost one of the greats last week. Tony Horwitz, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author, died May 27, 2019, at age 60. Horwitz was a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist. He is best known for what he called “participatory history” books about a variety of topics: the Confederate cultural legacy in the South;…
When Vladimir Nabokov’s novel Lolita was published in America in 1958, it was a blockbuster. It continues to be both timely and controversial. Lolita works on multiple levels to give us an enduring literary window into the darkness of abuse and self-deception. At face value, it is the first-hand account of a predator, Humbert, and his…
