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“Watching the World Change” continues to remember September 11

Weeks ago, I finished The Looming Tower, the acclaimed book by Lawrence Wright about the modern history of people and events leading to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. It is an expert account of the escalating fanaticism of the religious zealots that perpetrated the mass murders and destruction on that now-hallowed day. Over […]

Will the Big Read be a big yawn?

Standby literary classics will receive more moments in the sun as the National Endowment for the Arts gears up to shell out substantial bucks to “encourage citizens to read for pleasure and enlightenment” as part of a program called The Big Read.
Pilot reading programs are underway at nine libraries and community institutions, where readers are […]