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  2. Meg Elison - Wikipedia

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    Meg Elison (born May 10, 1982) is an American author and feminist essayist whose writings often incorporate the themes of female empowerment, body positivity, and gender flexibility. Her debut novel , The Book of the Unnamed Midwife , won the 2014 Philip K. Dick Award , and her second novel, The Book of Etta , was nominated for the award in ...

  3. The Book of the Unnamed Midwife - Wikipedia

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    In November 2020, the author, Meg Elison, discussed the novel. The first in the series The Road to Nowhere, which Elison says was named with "dual meaning of utopia...it might be a good place, but its probably no place." Elison also recognized the influence of the Talking Heads song with the same name "Road to Nowhere" as the series' theme ...

  4. Time Reading Program - Wikipedia

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    The Time Reading Program (TRP) was a book sales club run by Time–Life, the publisher of Time magazine, from 1962 through 1966. Time was known for its magazines, and nonfiction book series' published under the Time-Life imprint, while the TRP books were reprints of an eclectic set of literature, both classic and contemporary, as well as nonfiction works and topics in history.

  5. List of University of California, Berkeley alumni in arts and ...

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    Meg Elison, B.A. 2014 – novelist and essayist of feminist fiction and non-fiction; winner of the Philip K. Dick Award for The Book of the Unnamed Midwife, and Locus Award winner for "The Pill". Karen Joy Fowler , B.A. 1972 – writer, author of The Jane Austen Book Club (2004) (later made into a movie of the same name starring Maria Bello ...

  6. The Moth - Wikipedia

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    The Moth is a nonprofit group based in New York City, dedicated to the craft of storytelling. [1] Founded in 1997, the organization presents a wide range of theme-based storytelling events across the United States and abroad, often featuring prominent literary and cultural personalities [1] alongside everyday people like veterans, astronauts, school teachers, and parents.

  7. Object Lessons (book series) - Wikipedia

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    Object Lessons is "an essay and book series about the hidden lives of ordinary things". Each of the essays (2,000 words) and the books (25,000 words) investigate a single object through a variety of approaches that often reveal something unexpected about that object.

  8. The Letter People - Wikipedia

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    Alpha One, also known as Alpha One: Breaking the Code, was a first and second grade program introduced in 1968, and revised in 1974, [8] that was designed to teach children to read and write sentences containing words containing three syllables in length and to develop within the child a sense of his own success and fun in learning to read by using the Letter People characters. [9]

  9. Steve Alten - Wikipedia

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    Alten is the founder and director of Adopt-An-Author, a nationwide secondary-school free-reading program promoting works from six authors, including his own. [ 2 ] Bibliography