Archive: Mary Morris
Five Favorite Books About Ballet
When I was five, my mother, May Ishimoto, signed me up for ballet lessons. I loved the classes and especially the recitals, for which our teacher, Roy Gean, who later co-founded the Maryland Youth Ballet, recruited my mother to sew costumes. One enchanted evening, Mr. Gean took a group of...
By Christian Pelusi | August 14, 2008; 10:47 AM ET | Comments (8)
Four Books That Honor American Veterans
In the spirit of Memorial Day, Book World invited Jan Scruggs to pick his favorite books that honor our vets. Scruggs is founder of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial and president of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund; he recently wrote the foreword to The Wall: 25 Years of Healing and Educating...
By Christian Pelusi | May 29, 2008; 06:22 AM ET | Comments (15)
Five Books About Native Americans by Authors Who Aren't
"Every time I venture into a bookstore, I find another book about Indians. There are hundreds of books about Indians published every year, yet so few are written by Indians," writes award-winning poet, author and filmmaker Sherman Alexie (Spokane/Coeur d'Alene) in his poem "The Unauthorized Autobiography of Me." "A book...
By Christian Pelusi | March 13, 2008; 12:55 PM ET | Comments (14)
For People with a Weakness for Popular Music
For some folks, it's shoes or guitars that set their hearts aflutter. For others (and we know who we are) it's books about music and artists that make our pulses quicken. We've got to have them. We'll spend our lunch money, turn our pockets inside out, grow collections large enough...
By Christian Pelusi | November 29, 2007; 11:25 AM ET | Comments (0)
