Dictionary.com chose “identity” as its word of the year for 2015. Explaining why this was “the perfect word of the year” Time Magazine wrote: “appears simple but defines the complex shifts in a world that feels less fixed now than it did a year ago: identity.” They were inspired, in part, by a New York […]
“What do most of us mean when we say that we know someone well? We mean that we have constructed a mental image of that person, a sort of robot which functions adequately, except perhaps in revealing moments of crisis, and thereby saves us the fatigue of continually wondering what our friend is ‘really like.’ […]
This poetry performance won the 2015 College Unions Poetry Slam Invitational. In “Lost Voices” Scout Bostley and Darius Simpson change places and speak in the voice of the other. Michigan Radio reported: The main message of their performance, Simpson says, is to show the audience that “this is what you look like when you’re speaking […]
In the book Lewis & Lewis, John Juxon describes the solicitor Sir George Lewis’s approach to legal cases. He saw them as a puzzle, Juxon writes, but unlike a jigsaw puzzle they are puzzles in which the pieces can form different images. This is equally true of writing a biography. The events of a person’s […]
Originally posted on History and Mystery:
Identity Theft by Laura Lee When the rock star she idolized responded to her e-mail, Candi was thrilled. When he started to flirt with her, she thought all her dreams could come true. The fantasy takes over her entire life, but none of it is true. The man of…
Originally posted on A Well Read Woman:
Please give a warm welcome to Author Laura Lee, who was kind enough to stop over at A Well Read Woman Blog! The following is Laura’s guest post, where she reveals ten things you didn’t know about her novel, Identity Theft. Identity Theft is a novel about a bored employee…
I’m sure you were wondering, “Yes, but what does Laura Lee have to say about Caitlyn Jenner.” Several months before Caitlyn Jenner broke the Internet with a tweet about her Vanity Fair cover, a friend of mine, much more quietly, said goodbye to her old male identity. Although she had transitioned in her social life, […]
There is an interview today on The Atlantic with Allison J. Pugh, author of The Tumbleweed Society. Pugh has written about the toll job insecurity takes on a person’s relationships and sense of identity. “The work ethic, and all the different ways in which people define that, is a really powerful way in which people […]
Originally posted on Arie James Writes:
I recently joined a blog tour from Pen and Muse Press and I’m super excited to talk about it today! I was drawn to this book when it was described as genre-defying. Some of my favorite books are genre defying. Like Cara Vescio’s WASTED series. Even my own series PULSE,…
I would like to thank Kimery Campbell, an early reader of Identity Theft for taking the time to write the following review/description: Candi Tavris is 29, single, a little overweight, a lot in debt, and definitely overqualified for her soon-to-be-eliminated routine clerical job. Her financial worries and her single status have cut her off from […]
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