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For veterans and other military: writing classes

Virginian-Pilot - 8/6/2018

Aug. 04--Saturday is the deadline to apply for creative writing classes held in Norfolk by ASAP, the Armed Services Arts Partnership. These beginning-level courses, which cover memoir and fiction, are free and are for veterans, service members, military families and caregivers. Norfolk's, which run Sept. 8 through Oct. 20 (but not Oct. 13), will be at the Muse Writers Center, 2200 Colonial Ave., from 1 to 3:30 on those days. Emily Pease will teach. Details and application form: www.asapasap.org/writing/.

Signings: At the William & Mary bookstore on Merchants Square, 345 Duke of Gloucester St. (757-221-1651):

2 p.m. Friday: David McCarthy, a history professor at the Richard Bland College of William & Mary, "Selling the CIA: Public Relations and the Culture of Secrecy," on efforts to put the CIA in a positive light. (University Press of Kansas, 232 pp.)

Noon next Sunday: John Livecchi, a longtime student of Homer, "Retellings: Homer's Characters Speak in Our Time." (CreateSpace, 60 pp.)

Due Sept. 11: Bob Woodward's next take on a president, "Fear: Trump in the White House" (Simon & Schuster). Woodward, who made his name in helping expose Watergate, here "reveals in unprecedented detail the harrowing life inside President Donald Trump'sWhite House and precisely how he makes decisions on major foreign and domestic policies." The title derives from an interview the candidate made in 2016 when he said "Real power is through respect," and then said: "Real power is, I don't even want to use the word: 'Fear.' " (Washington Post)

Also: The story of the Thai cave rescue, involving the back stories of the 12 boys and their coach -- especially the stateless boy whose English skills helped them communicate with rescuers -- and the rescuers themselves. Due December from ABC News'Matt Gutman. (Publishers Lunch)

Missing, unpublished parts of Malcolm X's "Autobiography," and a marked-up manuscript for the finished book, have been found, and sold to the Schomburg research center in New York. (NYT)

Jane Austen detested England'sPrince Regent as profligate, gluttonous and unfaithful, so who knows how she'd have felt (amused?) if she knew he'd be one of her first readers. A grad student digging in the Royal Archives at Windsor Castle found an 1811 bill of sale charging the future George IV 15 shillings for her first novel, "Sense and Sensibility," two days before the book was publicly advertised. (Later, Austen was pressured into dedicating her fourth novel, "Emma," to him.) (NYT)

Obituaries: Judith Appelbaum, who wrote "How to Get Happily Published," was 78. (Shelf Awareness)

new and recent

The USSR and the U.S. saw their most dangerous moment of the Cold War in 1983, not during the Cuban Missile Crisis, according to two new books. NATO's Operation Able Archer exercise was, the Soviets feared, a cover for an attack. Two books explore: Taylor Downing's "1983: Reagan, Andropov, and a World on the Brink" (Da Capo, 391 pp.) and Marc Ambinder's "The Brink: President Reagan and the Nuclear War Scare of 1983" (Simon & Schuster, 364 pp.). (WSJ)

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