Liminal Spaces: A Profile of Erik Larson
WD gives a peek at the daily routine of Erik Larson and the writing process behind his bestselling narrative nonfiction in this Nov/Dec 2020 profile by Zachary Petit.
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Apr 19, 2021
This profile previously appeared in the November/December 2020, 100th Anniversary issue of Writer s Digest. On April 19, 2021, it was named the winner in the profile category of the American Society of Journalists and Authors Annual Writing Awards.
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ow does he do it?
To read Erik Larson is to let the past wash over you like a wave. History, from the micro to the macro, thrums with life: You can smell Chicago’s gaslights as the 19
Apr 8, 2021
U.P. Notable Book Club will present a virtual session with Upper Peninsula author James H. McCommons on his book âCamera Hunter: George Shiras III and the Birth of Wildlife Photography.â
CRYSTAL FALLS The Crystal Falls Community District Library, in partnership with the U.P. Publishers and Authors Association, has scheduled author events with winners of the U.P. Notable Book List.
The fourth event is with U.P. author and Northern Michigan University professor James H. McCommons, featuring “Camera Hunter: George Shiras III and the Birth of Wildlife Photography,” the first significant biography of Marquette’s famous naturalist George Shiras III in decades. The event will be at 6 p.m. today on Zoom and is open to all U.P. residents free of charge.
PRO Act’s ABC test earns F for independent contractors
From left are U.S. Senators Kyrsten Sinema and Mark Kelly
While the recent national focus has been on legislation about Covid relief, the Protecting the Right to Organize Act (a.k.a., PRO Act) has flown under the radar. If you are an independent contractor or freelancer, or hire them for your company, it’s time to look at the screen and see the green blinking blip that’s headed right at your business.
Jake Poinier
When the PRO Act was introduced in May 2019, it was intended to protect workers’ rights to unionize. A few months later, legislators added the ABC Test, which uses an outdated labor standard from the 1930s to distinguish employees from independent contractors rather than the more modern IRS Test.
Democrats Want To Take California’s Freelance Job Destruction National
March 12, 2021
When California enacted a first-of-its-kind law that proved to be so devastating that thousands of people and dozens of professions had to seek special exemptions within its first year, you’d think federal lawmakers would think twice before bringing it nationwide.
But not House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. On Tuesday, she moved full steam ahead in passing the Protecting the Right to Organize (PRO) Act, a bill that would do to the entire nation what Assembly Bill 5 (AB5) did to California. By imposing the rigid, three-pronged “ABC” test in which all three conditions must be satisfied for a worker to be hired as independent contractor, the PRO Act would sharply limit who is legally allowed to work independently or as a freelance worker.
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