James A. Michener’s hard-hitting novel of the Korean conflict finds slick translation in this topflight war spectacle. In taking advantage of the navy’s resources, aboard an aircraft carrier ...

Clay Stafford has a conversation with the award-winning author of nearly 100 books Joyce Carol Oates on the four-part formula ...

An avid reader, Norma belonged to several book clubs and particularly loved James Michener’s historical novels. She and Bruce enjoyed tennis and Norma continued to play into her eighties with ...

One of them was James Michener, deployed to the Pacific as a U.S. Navy lieutenant. Before he published most of his best-known novels, he wrote the text for two books of Japanese prints ...

Centennial is a 12-part miniseries adapted from a novel by James Michener of the same name. The Primetime Emmy Award-nominated TV series, which ran from 1978 to 1979, spans several centuries over ...

10 Best Books of 2024 100 Notable Books of 2024 Find ... GOLDEN YEARS: How Americans Invented and Reinvented Old Age, by James Chappel “You see these gray hairs?” Dorothy Parker asked in ...

Thousands of ducks a day could be taken in this fashion. In his novel "Chesapeake," James Michener chronicles the lives of Chesapeake Bay watermen and the historical use of punt guns to take ducks ...

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After 50 years as an artist, Bucks County’s Mark Sfirri has his first solo museum show. And a second simultaneously.