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Longtime editor Genevieve Young left legacy in publishing By HILLEL ITALIEFebruary 18, 2021 GMT This 2018 photo released by the Gordon Parks Foundation shows Genevieve Young, a publishing editor and wife of photographer and filmmaker Gordon Parks. Young was 89 when she died at her home in Manhattan on Feb. 18, 2020, after a long battle with cancer. She was a publishing editor with a long and diverse legacy. Beyond publishing a paid notice in The New York Times, the family says it had trouble fi...

Longtime editor Genevieve Young left legacy in publishing Hillel Italie Updated:  Tags:  This 2018 photo released by the Gordon Parks Foundation shows Genevieve Young, a publishing editor and wife of photographer and filmmaker Gordon Parks. Young was 89 when she died at her home in Manhattan on Feb. 18, 2020, after a long battle with cancer. She was a publishing editor with a long and diverse legacy. Beyond publishing a paid notice in The New York Times, the family says it had trouble finding...

The Marthas Vineyard Times To the Editor, As a former Island resident, and now part-time summer one, I found myself thinking, as of late with all that’s going on in the world, of my time with one of the Island’s own, William Styron, who sadly left us some time ago. Not many writers have captured the darkness of man and made us feel a part of it better than Pulitzer-prizewinning author Styron, one of the bold and brawny literary greats of an era that has since gone by. I was clea...

The Confessions of Nat Turner. According to The Confessions, Turner was born into slavery on a Southampton plantation on October 2, 1800. He could read and write, which was unusual for an enslaved person of that time and place, and he owned a Bible. He had a family, including a grandmother to whom he was “much attached”; a father who escaped slavery; and a wife and son, who lived on a neighboring farm. He was deeply religious, “devoting [his] time to fasting and prayer,” and experienc...

Brooklyn: John Michael Cummings wants to know why Nat Turner is not well known and why contemporary society has failed to recognize “the significance of his achievement” (“The salute Nat Turner deserves,” op-ed, Feb. 6).

Chang-rae Lee on Elena Ferrante,Luster, and the Book Hes Re-Read the Most ELLE 3/02/2021 Riza Cruz © Illustration by Mia Feitel and Yousra Attia The Pulitzer and National Book Critics Circle Award finalist, and author of My Year Abroad, takes our literary survey. Welcome to Shelf Life, ELLE.com’s books column>>>P, in which authors share their most memorable reads. Whether you’re on the hunt for a book to console you, move you profoundly, or make you laugh, consider a...

My Year Abroad, about an American collegian’s adventures across Asia and in witness protection in New Jersey. Lee, a creative writing professor at Stanford University, also wrote The Surrendered(2011), a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. His On Such a Full Sea (2014) was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction, and his debut Native Speaker (1995) won the PEN/Hemingway award. The Seoul-born, Westchester, N.Y.-raised Lee can’t seem to shake his histor...

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How Hollywoods Best Chronicler Tackled Mike Nichols (Guest Blog) TheWrap 1/28/2021 © Provided by TheWrap hollyblog guest blog banner Mark Harris has written two remarkable books, both about important moments in Hollywood history. The first, "Pictures at a Revolution," dealt with the Oscar race of 1967 and how that years Best Picture nominees represented the past, present and future of the industry. Then there was 2014s "Five Came Back," about the A-list directors who left their careers beh...

A strange turn occurs toward the middle of Frederick Seidel’s 2009 Paris Review interview. The poet, whom Adam Kirsch once deemed the best in the United States, describes himself as coming late to an appreciation of New York School poets James Schuyler and Frank O’Hara. Until this point in the conversation, Seidel’s distinctive sensibility snapped into place commensurate with his biography. His patrician vocabulary and profoundly conservative sense of rhyme and meter gestured toward his ...