FRANCINE PROSE’s political coming-of-age tale 1974: A Personal History is framed around her relationship with activist Tony Russo – indicted and tried for working with Daniel Ellsberg to leak the Pentagon papers – and the disturbing and dramatic end of that relationship. Consent: A Memoir explores JILL CIMENT’s decadeslong marriage to a 47-year-old married man […]
EDDA L. FIELDS-BLACK’s Combee: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom During the Civil War is the story of the Combahee River raid, during which Tubman ventured into South Carolina slave territory to live, work, and gather intelligence for an attack on major Confederate plantations – an extraordinary accomplishment that helped to define […]
For her podcast Family Secrets, author DANI SHAPIRO interviews actor, director, producer, and writer GRIFFIN DUNNE about his dazzling new book, The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir – an exploration of what it means to be from a family of storytellers, justice-seekers, and secret-keepers in Hollywood. The fame at this illustrious family’s core has […]