One of the good things about social distancing and being quarantined is it gives us time to read. As an avid reader myself, I’ve found it heartwarming to see the ways everyone is trying to get readers the books they need while in seclusion. Bookstores are doing more mail and curbside service and book lovers […]
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Chicken-Fried News: Book learnin’
Hey, you. Yeah, you. Thank you for reading. Not just Chicken-Fried News or even Oklahoma Gazette, but just, you know, reading, like, in general. Despite ample opportunities to fill your head with misinformation and garbage in the internet age, reading continues to be an excellent gateway drug to actually knowing stuff, and despite what the […]
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Unwavering Wall Street
A strange whistle pierced the Tulsa night at 5 a.m. June 1, 1921. A white mob poured into the Greenwood District, home of one of the nation’s most affluent African American communities. By noon of the same day, the homes, businesses and churches dubbed “Black Wall Street” by Booker T. Washington were reduced to rubble […]
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Reading culture
Oklahoma Book Festival 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Sept. 21 OKC Boathouse District 800 Riversport Drive
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Radio Okie
Michael Dean book signing 5:30-7:30 p.m. Friday Full Circle Bookstore 1900 Northwest Expressway, Suite 135 fullcirclebooks.com 405-842-2900 Free In Ardmore in 1953, Michael Dean saw a television for the first time. He was not impressed. “The couple that lived on the end of the block bought a TV, and they had to put a tower […]
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End times
Into Captivity They Will Go is about the end of the modern world — not as a reality but as a concept, a promise. It is about the intoxicating bigness of ideas like rapture, tribulation, apocalypse and prophecies that have long seemed so immediate despite one century passing uneventfully into another and another and another. […]
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Flying high
Late 1920s America is brought to vivid life on the pages of Flying Jenny, a historical novel by Oklahoma-born writer Theasa Tuohy. The book, published in May, captures both the exhilaration of early flight and the rough-and-tumble world of New York journalists, through the eyes of two young female protagonists. The women embark on a […]
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Strong spines
Maybe you can’t get everything from Amazon — like connections and understanding. “Most bookstores — cool bookstores at least — are much more than just a place to go and buy a book,” said Camille Landry, who recently re-opened Nappy Roots Books with her husband, Banbose Shango. “It’s a place to hang out. It’s a […]
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Poetic possibilities
It’s a common question: What do you want to be when you grow up? The answers are pat, sometimes full of naïveté: Doctor. Lawyer. Astronaut. Superhero. Often asked of young children, the question points to larger, subtler tensions of identity: Are you what you do? Who are you, and what can you be? In his […]
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Writer Shea Serrano visits OKC to talk best-sellers The Rap Year Book and Basketball (and Other Things)
A writer’s talk and book singing will be held 2 p.m. March 17 at Ronald J. Norick Downton Library.