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Posted inArts & Culture, Highlight, Nonfiction, Reading List, Unapologetic Women

Twelve Longreads for Aretha Franklin

by Danielle Jackson August 16, 2018October 19, 2022

Aretha Franklin was born March 25, 1942 and died Thursday, August 16, 2018.

Posted inBlog Post, Nonfiction, Unapologetic Women

An Elegy for Bette Howland, a Writer Who Was Nearly Forgotten

by A. N. Devers December 19, 2017October 19, 2022

On the passing of a MacArthur Genius forgotten for decades, re-discovered by ‘A Public Space’ editor Brigid Hughes.

Posted inNonfiction, Quotes

‘You Wouldn’t Think the Ashes of a Man Would Be So Heavy’: Remembering Sam Shepard

by Sari Botton July 31, 2017October 19, 2022

Remembering the late actor and playwright Sam Shepard.

Posted inNonfiction, Reading List

Mike Nichols: 1931-2014

by heymarkarms November 20, 2014October 19, 2022

Mike Nichols, the beloved director of stage and screen—from Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and The Graduate, to Barefoot in the Park and Working Girl— died Nov. 19, 2014 at the age of 83. Here are four pieces on the life of the artist.

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