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TED Talks: Candy Chang Discusses Her Before I Die Project

Art has the power to create inspiration from hardship, the power to bring emotional clarity to difficult times, and the power to make people laugh like idiots. Artist Candy Chang, in this week’s TED Tuesday pick, describes her Before I Die project, where she took a blank public wall and…

Katie HiresOctober 27, 2015

Nonfiction

A spectrum of creativity: the intersection of art and autism

Instead of narrowing down and defining autism and the art created by those who live with the disorder, in Drawing Autism (Akashic, March), behavior analyst Jill Mullin embraces the full range and spectrum of autism and artistic expression. The rich and varied images she selects show the multiplicity of perspective, processes,…

Kate RosenbaumApril 22, 2014

Fiction Thrillers Thrillers - Featured

College Students Plan Chinese Art Heists in Portrait of a Thief

“Li invites readers along for a ride in the crew’s roving getaway car, promising breathtaking vistas and, more importantly, a reckoning with colonial legacies that have long lingered in the shadows.” —Boston Globe “A cinematic heist thriller with a social conscience … vivid and precisely crafted.” —BookPage “Portrait of a…

Jennifer BlankfeinJune 2, 2022

Fiction Thrillers Thrillers - Featured

A Murder Mystery Full of Art and Intrigue in 1960s Manhattan

Once upon a time, Thomas Hart Benton was a household name, known widely as America’s foremost Regionalist painter. A prolific chronicler of the nation during the good and bad times of the 1920s through World War II, the Kansas City native studied art in Paris and New York City and…

Claudia KeenanMarch 1, 2021

BooksToScreen Fiction Miscellany Pop Culture

“The Goldfinch” by Donna Tartt Takes Flight in New Film

Since Donna Tartt’s best-selling novel The Goldfinch (Little Brown & Co.) won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2014, no one has been able to forget it. Now, it is migrating to the big screen with an adaptation by John Crowley, which opens Sept.13. This is an ambitious undertaking. How…

Joanna PoncavageAugust 26, 2019

Fiction Fiction - Featured

Single Motherhood Collides With Creative Ambition in the Mid-20th-Century Art Scene

Lis Bensley, author of the thoughtful and provocative The Glimpse (Troubador Publishing), no doubt would be flattered to have a primary theme of her work compared to this description of James Joyce’s A Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man: “the essential search for voice and meaning that every…

Jim AlkonApril 14, 2022

Fiction

“Second Place” is a Captivating Narrative Unlike Anything Else

Rachel Cusk earned critical renown with her “Outline” series, three books that strip bare traditional narrative formats and train the spotlight on minor characters, eliding the narrator’s identity and making her a mere conduit. Cusk’s newest novel, Second Place (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), performs an about-face from this approach, sinking…

Jessica McEnteeMay 7, 2021

Children's Books Fiction

A Reimagining of the Classic Carol Just in Time for the Christmas Season

When it comes to Christmas carols, you’d be hard-pressed to find someone unfamiliar with The Twelve Days of Christmas. At over 200 years old, this song is a time-honored classic that has been adored by thousands of listeners. Now Debbie Curtin has put her own spin on the jingle in…

Cameron KimballNovember 26, 2021

Children's Books - Featured Fiction

Bring the Kid in Your Life on “Rex’s Journey” to See How Coping Skills Can Calm Wild Emotions

Looking back on childhood, you might recall everything bopping along swimmingly: playing with friends, loving your family and waking up each day happy and bursting with exuberance. Then, you might recall your emotions getting in the way of all that, and suddenly, nothing is quite so simple. Rex's Journey: Helping…

Judy MorenoDecember 8, 2021

Children's Books Children's Books - Featured

Shanelle Harrison’s “Curious Colors” Makes Everyday Life Even More Vibrant

So says award-winning visual artist, educator and author Shanelle Harrison, who puts into practice what she preaches in the interactive children’s book Curious Colors (Uptown Press), a 58-page activity book that introduces young readers to colors, color theory and shapes. The book, geared for ages four and up, helps establish…

BookTribJuly 27, 2021

Book Club Network Book Club Network - Featured2 Fiction

“Dava Shastri’s Last Day” Prompts Her, and Us, To Perform a Personal Perspective Overhaul

Fate is not an option. Instead, she takes charge of the when, where and how — though, as she soon learns, not everything can be so tightly scripted. In Dava Shastri’s Last Day (Grand Central), author Kirthana Ramisetti weaves a world in which the secrets of Dava’s past are free…

Karina Holosko, M.A. English LitNovember 30, 2021

Fiction

Review: Dive Into Psychological Mystery on Peregrine Island

Tolstoy said that every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. Diane B. Saxton, the debut author of Peregrine Island (She Writes Press, August 2, 2016), would probably agree. Her new novel dives into a memorably dysfunctional family, the Peregrines, living on the titular private island on Long Island…

Katie HiresAugust 9, 2016

Fiction

Forgery, Felonies and the World of Fine Art Combine in This Exhilarating Thriller

In her newest thriller, Fake (Harper), author Erica Katz delves into the fine art world of priceless paintings, premier art galleries, felony fraud and a painter desperately trying to find her place. The Plot: Twenty-six-year-old Emma Caan learned from her professor at Yale that her paintings were unexceptional — technically superior…

K.L. RomoMarch 30, 2022

Fiction

Take a Jitney Ride to a Drama Set in the Elegant Hamptons

Summertime in Sag Harbor – the boats knock against the docks, the air is salt and the season is sunshine. If you love art and books with glamorous settings, Drawing Home is the perfect summer read. Sag Harbor locals are accustomed to tourists and summer people. But in Jamie Brenner's…

Claudia KeenanMay 3, 2019

Miscellany Pop Culture

“Women Holding Things” Boldly Celebrates Art, Poetry and Human Experience

Maira Kalman encourages you to smile, think, dream and feel emotions intensely. The world would be a better place if we all fell under the spell of her mesmerizing artwork and read her books regularly. Women Holding Things (Harper Design) immediately grabbed my attention and drew me into this exuberant…

Linda HitchcockNovember 10, 2022

Author Spotlight Author Spotlight - Featured Children's Books

Shanelle Harrison’s Lively Approach to Helping Kids Learn Their Colors

The children’s book Curious Colors (Uptown Press) offers a rainbow of delights, not the least of which is the art and design: the fact that Shanelle Harrison is an award-winning visual artist shines through clearly. She’s also a lauded educator, another accolade that bolsters her book with clarity and depth.…

Judy MorenoAugust 16, 2021

TED Talks: Candy Chang Discusses Her Before I Die Project

A spectrum of creativity: the intersection of art and autism

College Students Plan Chinese Art Heists in Portrait of a Thief

A Murder Mystery Full of Art and Intrigue in 1960s Manhattan

“The Goldfinch” by Donna Tartt Takes Flight in New Film

Single Motherhood Collides With Creative Ambition in the Mid-20th-Century Art Scene

“Second Place” is a Captivating Narrative Unlike Anything Else

A Reimagining of the Classic Carol Just in Time for the Christmas Season

Bring the Kid in Your Life on “Rex’s Journey” to See How Coping Skills Can Calm Wild Emotions

Shanelle Harrison’s “Curious Colors” Makes Everyday Life Even More Vibrant

“Dava Shastri’s Last Day” Prompts Her, and Us, To Perform a Personal Perspective Overhaul

Review: Dive Into Psychological Mystery on Peregrine Island

Forgery, Felonies and the World of Fine Art Combine in This Exhilarating Thriller

Take a Jitney Ride to a Drama Set in the Elegant Hamptons

Shanelle Harrison’s Lively Approach to Helping Kids Learn Their Colors

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