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I’ll be speaking on my memoir anthology “Coming of Age in a Hardscrabble World,” just out from University of Georgia Press, at the Tia Chucha’s Centro Cultural and Bookstore in Los Angeles on Thursday, December 19, 2019, at 6 p.m. Tia’s Chucha’s was created by the great Luis J. Rodriguez, poet and author of “Always […]
Learn MoreI spoke at Ursinus College outside Philadelphia last week on my book Stealing History and was struck by how its basic message still resonates. That message is that the illicit antiquities trade is compromising our ability to learn more about the story of humanity. No matter how much the dealers’ lobby and collecting museums try […]
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Nonfiction storytelling is at its best in this anthology of excerpts from memoirs by thirty authors-some eminent, some less well known-who grew up tough and talented in working-class America.
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Adam Goodheart, author of 1861: The Civil War Awakening
In this fascinating book, Atwood takes readers on a journey through Iraq, Peru, Hong Kong, and across America, showing how the worldwide antiquities trade is destroying what’s left of the ancient sites before archaeologists can reach them, and thus erasing their historical significance.
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Julia Klein in Archaeology
