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(2018), wrote the essay in question, “Girl on a Motorcycle,” in 2001 for an anthology titled She’s a Bad Motorcycle: Writers on Riding . Describing her first bike, a 500cc Moto Guzzi, Kushner’s voice has all the confidence, wisdom, and cool of her later work. “Motorcycles didn’t enter my own life as gifts from men or ways to travel to men,” Kushner asserts, “but as machines to be ridden.” The piece goes on to describe something called the Cabo 1000, an illegal and dangerous thousand-mile motorcycle race on the Baja California peninsula, much of which takes place on dirt roa...

History of The Graduate Center   History of The Graduate Center The historic B. Altman building, current home of The Graduate Center.   — Former President      William P. Kelly The establishment of The Graduate Center in 1961 by the New York State Legislature, itself, had few precedents. This was to be the first publicly supported doctoral program in New York City. It was a bold move that grew out of the historic commitment to public higher education in New York City, the need to provide advanced education for the growing post-World War II baby boom population, and the missi...

Screencap from ROEL'S BOOKSHOP/FACEBOOK Required Reading PH’s about page contains the quote “To read is to resist.” Indeed, with books by authors such as James Baldwin, Noam Chomsky, and Pramoedya Ananta Toer, the gems you’ll find in this independent bookshop can start you on a path of awakening. Screencap from REQUIRED READING PH/FACEBOOK Artbooks is a rare gem of a bookstore as it specializes in Filipino publications. It has a great selection of books from local university presses, zines and small presses, and even books on Filipino authors or subjects by an international publishing...

A New Vintage for Public Domain Classics By Karintha Parker | Feb 12, 2021 It’s the Roaring ’20s all over again. On January 1, thousands of novels originally published in 1925 lost their copyright status and hit the public domain, and this class included several that publishers had long been anticipating. Vintage Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House, is one of many publishers to jump at the opportunity, releasing four new, but old, titles in paperback as part of its Vintage Classics line on January 5: F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, Ernest Hemingway�...

DECCAN CHRONICLE. Updated Jan 7, 2021, 4:13 am IST Ultimate guide for book lovers  This cover image released by Grove shows "Shuggie Bain," a novel by Douglas Stuart. The Scottish writer has won the Booker Prize for fiction for his novel about a boy’s turbulent coming of age in hardscrabble 1980s Glasgow. Stuart won the prestigious 50,000 pound ($66,000) award for his first published novel. (Grove via AP) NON FICTION