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Extend Your Gardening Season with a DIY Cold Frame

I am a vegetable-growing novice but there is one thing that I do know – August still provides plenty of time to plant a plentiful harvest, especially if you get down with your handy self and take a little time to construct a cold frame. Simply put, a cold frame…

Amanda HarknessAugust 24, 2015

Nonfiction

Fear the Walking Dead Prep: Snacks to Survive the Zombie Apocalypse

Hungry people in zombie shows have been doing it all wrong. I'm often shaking my fist at these fictional characters and yelling at the TV, wondering why Carl from The Walking Dead is so excited about acquiring a stinking can of chocolate pudding. He probably almost had his arm chewed…

Amanda HarknessAugust 22, 2015

Better Self Business Nonfiction

Elle Luna Finds True Calling at the Crossroads of Should and Must

Each one of us has struggled at some time or another to find our “true calling.” Some of us struggle with that every day. We’re standing, in the words of author Elle Luna, at the crossroads between what we should do (what we feel we ought to be doing, what…

Michael RuscoeAugust 22, 2015

Nonfiction

Author Ellen Stimson Shares the Tattoo that Healed Her Breast Cancer

Welcome to Personal Ink, the monthly column where we showcase authors and their tattoos. A tattoo is more than just an image – from a message of love to an act of rebellion, there’s always some kind of meaning behind what we permanently etch into our skin. This month we’re…

Rachel CarterAugust 19, 2015

Nonfiction

Review: Lost World Remembered in House of Twenty Thousand Books

In The House of Twenty Thousand Books (New York Review Books, September 1, 2015) this is the journey taken by Sasha Abramsky, whose family was tasked with the job of cleaning out a houseful of books upon his grandfather’s death. His grandfather was no ordinary book collector. The co-owner…

Michael RuscoeAugust 19, 2015

Nonfiction

On the 70th Anniversary of V-J Day, a WWII Hero Looks Back

August 15 marks the 70th anniversary of V-J (Victory over Japan) Day. For many of us this date may be no more than another Saturday filled with afternoon barbecues and summer fun. For others, it is a day of much greater significance. It was on this date in 1945 that…

BookTrib Guest AuthorAugust 14, 2015

Nonfiction

Race in America: Could You be Prejudiced Without Knowing It?

Over the rest of this century, judgments about the prominence and impact of race in American society will need to take into account a series of recent critical events. The outright social rebellions in Ferguson and Baltimore, the racially motivated massacre in Charleston, and the ever-continuing series of unarmed black…

BookTrib Guest AuthorAugust 12, 2015

BooksToScreen Nonfiction

Patti Smith’s ‘Just Kids’ to Premiere on Showtime

Last year we wrote about rock icon Patti Smith’s memoir Just Kids, which detailed one of the more infamous times in American rock history and charted the legendary relationship between Smith and photographer Robert Mapplethorpe. The book was a critical and commercial success for Smith, who has been rumored to…

Joel HigginsAugust 12, 2015

Nonfiction

UFC Superstar Ronda Rousey Reveals Battle Against Apraxia

When speech pathologist Laura Smith learned that Ronda Rousey was coming to Denver to sign copies of her new book, My Fight/Your Fight (Regan Arts, 2015), she took a chance that the UFC women’s bantamweight champion might confirm that the disorder she had overcome as a child was apraxia.…

JeriAnn GellerAugust 7, 2015

Nonfiction

Video: Missed It? Interview with Joan Kingsley, Author of The Fear-Free Organization

Leadership that makes a difference takes guts and confidence, plus belief in oneself and belief in the key players in the organization. It is built on trust, not fear. Scared people spend a lot more time plotting their survival than working productively, so The Fear-Free Organization has zero-tolerance for bullies,…

BookTribJuly 25, 2015

Nonfiction

Cooking Up the Best Writing on Food

When you think about it, good writing is a lot like good cooking. An effective author has to prepare the correct mix of words, sentences and paragraphs spiced with just the right adjectives, adverbs and punctuation marks to make the brew go down best for readers. If you’re a foodie…

Amanda HarknessJuly 24, 2015

Nonfiction

Marie White Small, Winner of When Words Count, Shares Her Journey

In September 2012, I came across a sweepstakes announcement inviting writers to apply for a free three-day stay at a mountaintop writer’s retreat in Central Vermont. Contests were seldom on my radar but given that the destination, When Words Count Retreat, was two hours from my home in southern Vermont,…

BookTrib Guest AuthorJuly 21, 2015

Nonfiction

Getting a Taste of Summer From Audrey Hepburn’s Kitchen

Audrey Hepburn was a girl after my own heart – or perhaps in this case, my stomach. She was not without her vices in the kitchen – Hepburn’s favorites included pasta, chocolate, vanilla ice cream with fudge sauce, wine and of course, an after dinner cigarette. Her son Luca remembers…

Amanda HarknessJuly 20, 2015

Nonfiction

Philpott’s Campfire Cookbook is Your Trailside Friend

If you’ve ever found yourself in the middle of a grueling hike without any power snacks, (cue hangry, trail-side rage rant) or if you’ve ever awkwardly made sandwiches on your knees because you ran out of table space, (there were so many ants on the ground!) or if you couldn’t…

Amanda HarknessJuly 18, 2015

Nonfiction

The Black Writer’s Burden: Sins of Transracial Fiction

If you pay attention, you’ll notice how often we Americans mimic a version of Black dialect and persona. We shift our speech and demeanor, usually only momentarily and often with the intent to create momentary comic relief. These fleeting moments of burlesque evoke a stylized version of how Black people…

BookTrib Guest AuthorJuly 14, 2015

Nonfiction

Allie Brosh Making Solutions Problematic Once Again

As someone who can only barely remember a time before the internet, I tend to give the online world a whole lot of legitimacy. So when popular online figures extend their reach into the world of traditional publishing, I usually meet the announcement with a less than enthusiastic, “Meh.” But…

Joel HigginsJuly 8, 2015

Extend Your Gardening Season with a DIY Cold Frame

Fear the Walking Dead Prep: Snacks to Survive the Zombie Apocalypse

Elle Luna Finds True Calling at the Crossroads of Should and Must

Author Ellen Stimson Shares the Tattoo that Healed Her Breast Cancer

Review: Lost World Remembered in House of Twenty Thousand Books

On the 70th Anniversary of V-J Day, a WWII Hero Looks Back

Race in America: Could You be Prejudiced Without Knowing It?

Patti Smith’s ‘Just Kids’ to Premiere on Showtime

UFC Superstar Ronda Rousey Reveals Battle Against Apraxia

Video: Missed It? Interview with Joan Kingsley, Author of The Fear-Free Organization

Cooking Up the Best Writing on Food

Marie White Small, Winner of When Words Count, Shares Her Journey

Getting a Taste of Summer From Audrey Hepburn’s Kitchen

Philpott’s Campfire Cookbook is Your Trailside Friend

The Black Writer’s Burden: Sins of Transracial Fiction

Allie Brosh Making Solutions Problematic Once Again

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