$50M Literary Arts Fund will support independent publishers and nonprofits
Citing a chronic shortage of financial backing for independent publishers and nonprofits dedicated to writing and reading, a coalition of…
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A PBS "Independent Len" documentary, "We Were Here," recalls the largely gay Castro District of San Francisco of the 1980s and chronicles the early days of the AIDS epidemic. Spencer Michels speaks with the filmmaker David Weissman.
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