Pat Conroy’s new novel Beach Music (Doubleday; 628 pages; $27.50) jumps onto your lap like a large shaggy dog that will do anything to get your attention. It’s friendly but still has teeth, like The Prince of Tides with its theme of family violence barely concealed in Southern blarney. Beach Music’s Jack McCall has his own troublesome clan in South Carolina. His father the Judge is a brilliant drunk. Mom is a former striptease dancer, feisty cancer patient and savior of threatened loggerhead turtles.

Events in Sport Events 1 - 100 of 285 1681-01-06 First recorded boxing match is engineered by Christopher Monck, 2nd Duke of Albemarle; his butler vs his butcher 1733-05-06 First international boxing match: Local fighter Bob Whittaker beats “The Venetian Gondolier”, Tito di Carni at James Figg's academy amphitheatre in Marylebone, London 1743-08-16 Champion of England titleholder Jack Broughton publishes "Rules of the Ring," the earliest boxing code 1750-04-11 Jack Slack retains Champion of England boxing title, beats Frenchman Jean Petit in 7 rounds in Harlston, England; acknowledged as first international prize fight 1751-07-29 1st international world title prize fight: Jack Stack of England, beats challenger M.

The movie adaptation of Colleen Hoover’s novel It Ends With Us is coming to theaters on Friday and as its stars celebrate the premiere, a few moments have occurred online and on the red carpet that are leading internet sleuths to speculate on potential drama behind the scenes. Hoover’s novel, which became a runaway success after its release in 2016, centers on the story of two characters, Lily and Ryle, played in the movie by Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni.

On the New York Curb is listed the stock of a company engaged in manufacturing patented egg-containers. Another operates whaling vessels. Others make camel’s hair goods, fountain pens, soft drinks, clocks, sheets, bathing suits. But never until last week was a company, devoted entirely to peanuts, represented upon a New York stock market. The peanut came to Wall Street with the listing on the Curb of Tom Huston Peanut Co. Guiding this young (incorporated in 1928) company’s affairs is its creator, youngish Tom Huston, publicized as “The Farmer Boy Who Became Peanut King.

Cooper Raiff's second film is made with wit and skill but feels overly designed to be a Sundance hit. He’s a cha cha real smooth talker. He’s 22, tall and handsome with a beard, but not a scruffy hipster beard — more like a post-millennial, post-ironic traditional beard, which sets off features that are finely chiseled in a Middle American corporate way.

The single which is a lead of his forthcoming project is accompanied by a vibrant display of subtle and pure vocals. On this single, He sings almost exclusively about taking his lover to brunch- or, more specifically, about the tillating promise of sex. This oozing sensuality yields mood music as he treats consent like a warm embrace. ADVERTISEMENT This new single “Brunch” is a classic throwback with daring yet not too risque lyrics.

Growing up, I associated genealogy with the begats of the Bible, with an old family tree my father showed me, and with my father’s reverence for the Old South. He was an avowed white supremacist, a defender of slavery, and I aspired then to be as little like him and his branch of my family as possible. So I never expected to become interested in compiling my own family tree. When I did start researching my ancestors, only my mother’s side interested me: the Texan rabble-rousers, scoundrels, and misfits I’d grown up hearing about.

TIME September 22, 1961 12:00 AM GMT-4 The hottest stock on the academic market these days is Stanford University, which says it wants to be “the Harvard of the West.” Last year the already rich school (endowment: $159 million) got a 1-for-3 matching grant of $25 million from the Ford Foundation. Last spring it set out to raise that potential $100 million under an acronymous campaign called PACE (Plan of Action for a Challenging Era).

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Ten minutes into my video interview with the author Emma Straub, I’m chatting with her husband Mike. This Google Hangout is supposed to be about Straub’s new novel, but it turns out Mike and I have the same hometown, and our eyes are bright with the thrill of meeting someone new whom we can talk to about something besides the pandemic. Soon after he leaves and Straub and I are back on track, talking fiction and family, she pauses.