An annotated page from ‘There Will Be No Miracles Here’
"'I don’t know' is the most important phrase in this whole book," author Casey Gerald explains.
Discussion questions for ‘There Will Be No Miracles Here’
Casey Gerald's memoir is about attaining and then questioning the American dream.
December’s pick for the PBS NewsHour-New York Times book club is ‘There Will Be No Miracles Here’
"There Will Be No Miracles Here" is part memoir and part meditation, tracing Casey Gerald's journey from his childhood in a poor neighborhood in Dallas all the way to Yale and the halls of power.
4 lessons from Michelle Obama on being true to yourself
Becoming your best self means taking care of yourself, and other things Michelle Obama shared during her book tour stop in Washington, D.C.
As politicians spar over immigration, playwright Octavio Solis recounts his childhood as a “skinny brown kid” in El Paso in his memoir “Retablos”. Solis says that though he was in the U.S. legally, Border Patrol would ask him to recite…
"Educated," a memoir by Tara Westover of growing up in a survivalist family in remote Idaho, is our May pick for the PBS NewsHour-New York Times book club, “Now Read This.”…
Author Tom Perrotta, who wrote "Election," "Little Children" and "The Leftovers," shares his favorite real-life stories about growing up.
Who was humorist David Sedaris before he had sold millions of books and made countless live appearances before adoring audiences? In a new book, "Theft By Finding," Sedaris offers a portrait of himself as a younger artist through his personal…
