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Seek Treatment), Cohen's debut poetry collection God I Feel Modern Tonight: Poems from a Gal About Town (Knopf, 2021) has just been released. Striking a careful balance between the poetic ("I love sex and I love before it—/the double vodka soda leg touch") and the playful ("going swimming is an amazing way/to stop being on your phone"), Cohen never ceases to entertain. I spoke with Catherine shortly after the book was published. Gregg Shapiro: Your book God I Feel Modern Tonight is subtitled Poems from a Gal About Town. Were you a gal about town in (your native) Houston or did that come ...

Feb 25, 2021 8:23 PM EDT NEW YORK (AP) — “Caste,” Isabel Wilkerson’s exploration of racism in the United States, and “The Dead are Arising,” an acclaimed biography of Malcolm X, are among this year’s nominees for awards presented by the J. Anthony Lukas Prize Project. The project announced Thursday that Wilkerson is a finalist for the Lukas Book Prize, along with Becky Cooper’s “We Keep the Dead Close,” Seyward Darby’s “Sisters in Hate,” Barton Gellman’s “Dark Mirror” and Jessica Goudeau’s “After the Last Border.” The Luk...

Feb 24, 2021 IRON MOUNTAIN — Dickinson County Library sites in Iron Mountain, Norway and Felch Township continue to offer curbside pickup of library materials and limited appointments inside the building. New materials for checkout are being added all the time at all three locations.  Some recent new adult non-fiction titles include —  — “One Hundred Dogs and Counting” by Cara Sue Achterberg; —“Rome is Burning: Nero and the Fire that Ended a Dynasty” by Anthony A. Barrett; — “South to Freedom: Runaway Slaves to Mexico and the Road to the Civil War” by Alice L. Baum...

Becky Cooper - - - When Becky Cooper was a junior at Harvard, her friend's boyfriend told her a story about the murder of a graduate student in the university's archaeology department. This was in the 1960s, he said. The victim had been having an affair with one of her professors — a romance that began while they were on a dig together in Iran. When he tried to end the relationship, she wouldn't let it go. So he murdered her, then hid her body under his coat and carried her to his office. There, he adorned her naked body in the necklaces they'd unearthed on the dig. He covered her in red oc...