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Just in time for Mothers Day, three excellent and very different books about mothers and daughters.
Founder and Chair Jud Ashman outlines some of the many reasons to visit the third annual Book Festival, on the Gaithersburg City Hall grounds, Saturday, May 19th.
From the emerald diamond to a walk down the mean streets of New York City, travel with this week's snapshot to places new and familiar.
Today we launch The Independent’s “Slow Reads.” Every month, we will recommend a book – not a new one – that is worth reading s-l-o-w-l-y, not on the Metro or in snatches. A book for which you will shut down the email and muzzle the tweets, avert your eyes from Facebook, and stop text messaging. We’ll provide a Slow Reads Forum for our readers to share their reactions to the book, and to nominate books for the months to come.
We showcase a stunning debut short story collection, Monstress, and a period novel, Gillespie and I, that cleverly explores manipulative love. The Forest Laird is a fictional biography of William Wallace. And for a biography of the greatest photo-documentarian of our generation, read A Different Light, The Photography of Sebastião Salgado.
Martha Toll discusses the pitfalls of translating literary works.
A trio of new Science Fiction novels and a book of non-fiction essays on NASA and the future of space travel are reviewed in this round up.
Eugene L. Meyer profiles publishing icon Jason Epstein for "Columbia College Today."
