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Eric Papenfuse
Eric Robert Papenfuse (born September 4, 1971) is an American businessman and politician who served as the 38th Mayor of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Papenfuse is the founder and co-owner with his wife of The Midtown Scholar Bookstore in Harrisburg, which they have owned since 2001. Early life and education Eric Papenfuse was born in Baltimore, Maryland on September 4, 1971. He attended the Boys' Latin School of Maryland, graduating in 1989 as the valedictorian. His father, Edward C. Papenfuse, is a retired Maryland state archivist. His mother, Sallie Papenfuse, is a reading teacher at The Boys' Latin School of Maryland. He spent a decade at Yale pursuing an undergraduate and graduate in history. At Yale, he wrote the book, ''The Evils of Necessity: Robert Goodloe Harper and the Moral Dilemma of Slavery'', which was published by the American Philosophical Society in 1997. Career Midtown Scholar Bookstore Papenfuse started the Midtown Scholar Bookstore in 2000 because he wan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Mayors Of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
This list of mayors of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania is sorted chronologically, by default. The current mayor, since January 2022, is Democrat Wanda Williams. See also * Harrisburg City Council * Timeline of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania history Notes References The Political Graveyard: Harrisburg, Pennsylvania – ''Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission'' History of Harrisburg: the State Capital – ''Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission'' [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Midtown Scholar Bookstore
''The'' is a grammatical article in English, denoting nouns that are already or about to be mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The'' is the most frequently used word in the English language; studies and analyses of texts have found it to account for seven percent of all printed English-language words. It is derived from gendered articles in Old English which combined in Middle English and now has a single form used with nouns of any gender. The word can be used with both singular and plural nouns, and with a noun that starts with any letter. This is different from many other languages, which have different forms of the definite article for different genders or numbers. Pronunciation In most dialects, "the" is pronounced as (with the voiced dental fricative followed by a schwa) when followed by a consonant sound, and as (homophone of the archaic pronoun ''thee'') ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Capital Region Water
Capital Region Water (formerly known as Harrisburg Authority) is a municipal authority providing drinking water, wastewater and stormwater services in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania Dauphin County (; Pennsylvania Dutch language, Pennsylvania Dutch: Daffin Kaundi) is a County (United States), county in the Commonwealth (U.S. state), Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, the populati ..., United States. References Municipal authorities in Pennsylvania Government of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania {{pennsylvania-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The New Yorker
''The New Yorker'' is an American magazine featuring journalism, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons, and poetry. It was founded on February 21, 1925, by Harold Ross and his wife Jane Grant, a reporter for ''The New York Times''. Together with entrepreneur Raoul H. Fleischmann, they established the F-R Publishing Company and set up the magazine's first office in Manhattan. Ross remained the editor until his death in 1951, shaping the magazine's editorial tone and standards. ''The New Yorker''s fact-checking operation is widely recognized among journalists as one of its strengths. Although its reviews and events listings often focused on the Culture of New York City, cultural life of New York City, ''The New Yorker'' gained a reputation for publishing serious essays, long-form journalism, well-regarded fiction, and humor for a national and international audience, including work by writers such as Truman Capote, Vladimir Nabokov, and Alice Munro. In the late ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
London Review Of Books
The ''London Review of Books'' (''LRB'') is a British literary magazine published bimonthly that features articles and essays on fiction and non-fiction subjects, which are usually structured as book reviews. History The ''London Review of Books'' was founded in 1979, when publication of ''The Times Literary Supplement'' was suspended during the year-long Lockout (industry), lock-out at ''The Times''. Its founding editors were Karl Miller, then professor of English at University College London; Mary-Kay Wilmers, formerly an editor at ''The Times Literary Supplement''; and Susannah Clapp, a former editor at Jonathan Cape. For its first six months, it appeared as an insert in ''The New York Review of Books''. It became an independent publication in May 1980. Its political stance has been described by Alan Bennett, a prominent contributor, as "consistently radical". Unlike ''The Times Literary Supplement'' (TLS), the majority of the articles the ''LRB'' publishes (usually fifteen p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patricia Lockwood
Patricia Lockwood (born April 27, 1982) is an American poet, novelist, and essayist. Beginning a career in poetry, her collections include ''Motherland Fatherland Homelandsexuals'', a 2014 ''New York Times'' Notable Book. Later prose works received more exposure and notoriety. She is a multiple award winner: her 2017 memoir '' Priestdaddy'' won the Thurber Prize for American Humor and her 2021 debut novel, '' No One Is Talking About This,'' won the Dylan Thomas Prize. In addition to her writing activities, she has been a contributing editor for the ''London Review of Books'' since 2019. She is notable for working across a variety of genres. "Your work can flow into the shape that people make for you," she told ''Slate'' in an interview in 2020. "Or you can try to break that shape." In 2022, she received the American Academy of Arts and Letters' Morton Dauwen Zabel Award for her contributions to the field of experimental writing. Lockwood is the only writer with both fic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Masha Gessen
Masha Gessen () is a Russian and American journalist, author, and translator who has written extensively on LGBT rights. Gessen writes primarily in English but also in Russian. In addition to authoring several nonfiction books, Gessen has contributed to ''The New York Times'', ''The New York Review of Books'', ''The Washington Post'', the ''Los Angeles Times'', ''The New Republic'', ''New Statesman'', ''Granta'', ''Slate'', '' Vanity Fair'', ''Harper's Magazine'', ''The New Yorker'', and '' U.S. News & World Report''. They have been a staff writer for ''The New Yorker'' since 2017 and an opinion columnist at ''The New York Times'', under the byline M. Gessen, since May 2024. Early life and education Gessen was born into a Jewish family in Moscow to Alexander and Yelena Gessen. Gessen's paternal grandmother Ester Goldberg, the daughter of a socialist mother and a Zionist father, was born in Białystok, Poland, in 1923 and emigrated to Moscow in 1940. Ester's grandfather Jaku ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Bowden
Mark Bowden (; born 1951) is an American journalist and writer. He is a former national correspondent and longtime contributor to ''The Atlantic''. Bowden is best known for his book ''Black Hawk Down (book), Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War'' (1999) about the 1993 U.S. military raid in Mogadishu, which was later adapted into Black Hawk Down (film), a motion picture of the same name that received two Academy Awards. Bowden is also known for the books ''Killing Pablo, Killing Pablo: The Hunt for the World's Greatest Outlaw'' (2001), about the efforts to take down Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar, and ''Hue 1968'', an account of the Battle of Huế. Early life Bowden was born in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1951. He graduated from Loyola University Maryland in 1973 with a Bachelor of Arts, B.A in English literature. While he was at college, he was inspired to embark on a career in journalism by reading Tom Wolfe's book ''The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test''. Career From 1979 to 20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Golden House
Swisshorn Gold Palace () aka. "The Golden House" was a showroom of Hang Fung Gold Technology and a tourist attraction in Hong Kong, advertised as a luxury hotel.Jonathan Cheng"A Palace of Gold Is Sold Off For Its Melt Value, but Not the Throne" ''The Wall Street Journal'', 7 July 2008 It was located at G/F No. 71-77 Pau Chung Street, To Kwa Wan, Kowloon Kowloon () is one of the areas of Hong Kong, three areas of Hong Kong, along with Hong Kong Island and the New Territories. It is an urban area comprising the Kowloon Peninsula and New Kowloon. It has a population of 2,019,533 and a populat .... 5 January 2007 It was supposedly modelled after ancient European palaces. The structure took five years to design and was built from approximately two tonnes of gold. The inside of the "hotel" was covered in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Salman Rushdie
Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie ( ; born 19 June 1947) is an Indian-born British and American novelist. His work often combines magic realism with historical fiction and primarily deals with connections, disruptions, and migrations between Eastern world, Eastern and Western world, Western civilizations, typically set on the Indian subcontinent. Rushdie's second novel, ''Midnight's Children'' (1981), won the Booker Prize in 1981 and was deemed to be "the best novel of all winners" on two occasions, marking the Man Booker Prize#Winners, 25th and the The Best of the Booker, 40th anniversary of the prize. After his fourth novel, ''The Satanic Verses'' (1988), Rushdie became the subject of several assassination attempts and death threats because of what was seen by some to be an irreverent Depictions of Muhammad, depiction of Muhammad. This included a ''fatwa'' calling for his death issued by Ruhollah Khomeini, the supreme leader of Iran. The book was banned in 20 countries. Numerous killin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Publishers Weekly
''Publishers Weekly'' (''PW'') is an American weekly trade news magazine targeted at publishers, librarians, booksellers, and literary agents. Published continuously since 1872, it has carried the tagline, "The International News Magazine of Book Publishing and Bookselling." With 51 issues a year, the emphasis today is on book reviews. History Nineteenth century The magazine was founded by bibliographer Frederick Leypoldt in the late 1860s and had various titles until Leypoldt settled on the name ''The Publishers' Weekly'' (with an apostrophe) in 1872. The publication was a compilation of information about newly published books, collected from publishers and from other sources by Leypoldt, for an audience of booksellers. By 1876, ''The Publishers' Weekly'' was being read by nine tenths of the booksellers in the country. In 1878, Leypoldt sold ''The Publishers' Weekly'' to his friend Richard Rogers Bowker, in order to free up time for his other bibliographic endeavors. Augu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dwight Garner (critic)
Dwight Garner (born January 8, 1965) is an American journalist and longtime writer and editor for ''The New York Times''. In 2008, he was named a book critic for the newspaper. He is the author of ''Garner's Quotations: A Modern Miscellany'' and ''Read Me: A Century of Classic American Book Advertisements.'' In 2023 he published his memoir, ''The Upstairs Delicatessen: On Eating, Reading, Reading About Eating, and Eating While Reading''. Journalism and writing Garner's previous post at ''The New York Times'' was as senior editor of ''The New York Times Book Review'', where he worked from 1999 to 2008. He was a founding editor of ''Salon.com'',Author bio at where he worked from 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
