Teachers make a big impact on people's lives, including the lives of beloved TV characters. Ahead of World Teachers' Day on Oct. 5, Stacker surveyed TV history and chose 25 memorable teachers from TV shows.
When producer Todd Prendergast's stepfather disappeared in 2005, “I saw my mother collapsing, very upset, very emotional,” he recalls. “Something I called my ‘Incredible Hulk moment’ just kicked in and I said, ‘We’re going to find this guy.’”
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CHICAGO — There is often comfort to be had in the familiar. You can wear that old sweater. Grab a stool at your cozy corner tavern. Order the “usual” at your favorite restaurant. Call a friend from high school. Or you can pick up a book with the name Scott Turow on the cover. You can do that…
FICTION: After Obama wins the presidency in 2008, a group of Republicans — led by "The Big Guy" — vow to retake the country. "The Unfolding" by A.M. Homes; Viking (416 pages, $28) ——— It's been 10 years since A.M. Homes' last book, "May We Be Forgiven," which won the Women's Prize for Fictio…
LOS ANGELES — Several years ago, Laura Warrell made a decision to give up on love. She was in her late 40s, had been married and divorced, and had grown tired of men who didn't value relationships — who would run for the hills at the slightest hint of commitment. She wrote an essay about her…
FICTION: A 19th-century teacher and amateur scientist studies the mysteries of the natural world — and the human heart. "Natural History" by Andrea Barrett; Norton (224 pages, $26.95) ——— Every life is an experiment. A series of experiments, really. We test our theories about ourselves and the world through our actions, observing our own trials and shaping the hypotheses that reveal us — if ...
FICTION: Set in post-World War I London, Atkinson's latest follows a nightclub owner and her nefarious enterprises. "Shrines of Gaiety" by Kate Atkinson; Doubleday (416 pages, $29) ——— Wonderfully balanced between the literary bravura of novels like "Life After Life" and the more mundane but ample pleasures of her Jackson Brodie mysteries, Kate Atkinson's "Shrines of Gaiety" puts a cast of ...
SAN DIEGO — How big is author Mathew Klickstein's new oral history of San Diego Comic-Con? As big as it needs to be. Released earlier this month on Fantagraphics Books, the epically titled "See You At San Diego: An Oral History of Comic-Con, Fandom, and the Triumph of Geek Culture" is nearly 500 pages long and features more than 400 photos and graphics. It has a massive cast of interviewees ...
FICTION: Namwali Serpell's luminous new novel about a missing child bends and blends genre in a searching exploration of grief. "The Furrows" by Namwali Serpell; Hogarth (288 pages, $27) ——— On a Delaware beach vacation, 12-year-old Cassandra Williams (also known as Cee, or C) is swimming with her adored 7-year-old brother, Wayne, when a tide hooks him between the furrows of its waves. ...
"The Marriage Portrait," by Maggie O'Farrell. The author of "Hamnet" imagines the fictionalized story of another real person — Lucrezia de' Medici, a Renaissance teenager who married at 15 and was dead within the year. Of putrid fever? Or of murder? "Hamnet," a reimagining of the life and death of Shakespeare's son, won the Women's Prize for Fiction and the National Book Critics Circle Award. ...
FICTION: A deathbed confession sends a woman on a search for the truth about her identity — and about the very nature of identity. "Mother Tongue" by Joyce Kornblatt; Publerati (176 pages, $17.95) ——— "Mother Tongue," by Joyce Kornblatt, gives "speculative fiction" a whole new meaning. Nella Pine, in a letter discovered after her mother's death, has learned that she is not in fact Nella Pine, ...
If you gave “Murder, She Wrote” a contemporary spin and added in plenty of new media, you’d wind up with “So Help Me Todd,” a fun new mystery that brings out the best in Marcia Gay Harden and Skylar Astin.
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