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Susannah’s Spring, Summer Reading List…2021

Posted on March 21, 2021 by Susannah Bianchi

I’ve been on a French kick… so try picturing me in a beret with an Hermes scarf tied coquettishly around my neck, humming Frère Jacques. Books can do that, change your identity so even your own mother wouldn’t know you. … Continue reading →

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Writers Who Never Knew

Posted on January 17, 2021 by Susannah Bianchi

Emma Lazarus’s poem, The New Colossus, written in 1883 to raise money for the building of the Statue of Liberty’s pedestal, died when she was 38 of Hodgkins Lymphoma, never knowing her beautiful words would be immortalized on Liberty’s base. … Continue reading →

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