Brittney Griner was born to Vietnam war veteran Raymond and homemaker Sandra Griner. Griner considered is one of the most successful WNBA players. As confident as the Phoenix Mercury player is, little Griner was just as shy and insecure. Even when Griner was a young girl, she was more interested in helping her dad fix cars rather than playing with dolls. Gradually, Griner became aware that she was different from other girls. Read More...
Book of the dayBiography booksReviewHarry Crews’s unsparing portrait of his often brutal upbringing in 1930s Georgia is a window into a lost world
If a cult writer’s aura endures long enough, their work might be elevated to Penguin Classics status. At leas, that’s what’s happened to Harry Crews, the author of many southern gothic novels populated by freaks and grotesques, including his most well-known novel, A Feast of Snakes. Born in Georgia in 1935, Crews died in 2012 and claimed to have sold only a few thousand books in hardback during his lifetime (a series of celebrity admirers including Sean Penn and Madonna failed to translate into mainstream popularity). Read More...
The new year may have just started, but Lauren Ambrose is already the biggest star of 2023 thanks to her starring roles in the anticipated new seasons of Showtime's Yellowjackets, which returns with new episodes in March, and Servant, which ends its run on Apple TV+ starting in January.
When it comes to the former, Ambrose has been added to the ensemble as the adult version of teenage plane crash survivor (and fan favorite), Van Palmer, played by Liv Hewson. Read More...
