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Category: Biography and Memoir
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Hear one of the contributors to Believer, Beware: First-person Dispatches From the Margins of Faith read one of the stories from the collection.
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On the occasion of Helen Keller’s birthday, Kim E. Nielsen reflects on the extraordinary woman’s most important friendship.
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Kate Clinton reflects on her days in the “Gay Resistance.”
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On the birthday of Anne Sullivan Macy, Kim Nielsen explores the many reasons she chose to write a book about the woman best known as the teacher of Helen Keller.
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Susan Campbell discusses the shame-based fundamentalism of her childhood and how she learned to let go.
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Comedian Kate Clinton reflects on twenty-eight years of stand-up and the unfortunate turns of history that have fueled her politically-charged routine.
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Kao Kalia Yang, author of The Latehomecomer: A Hmong Family Memoir, talks about what compelled her to share her family’s story of relocation from their home in Laos to a refugee camp in Thailand to the United States.
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Bill Ayers will discuss the reissue of Fugitive Days: Memoirs of an Antiwar Activist with Chris Cuomo on tomorrow's Good Morning America. (UPDATE: link to story) Beacon Press had planned to publish a new edition of Fugitive Days with a new afterword in April 2009 after reverting the paperback rights from Penguin books in April…
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by Stephen Puleo Stephen Puleo’s latest book is The Boston Italians: A Story of Pride, Perseverance and Paesani, from the Years of the Great Immigration to the Present Day. His previous books include Due to Enemy Action: The True World War II Story of the USS Eagle 56, and Dark Tide: The Great Boston Molasses…
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