American writers

Mitsotakis praises Obama’s book during presentation

Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis sang the praises on Tuesday of former US President Barack Obama for living up to expectations with his book "A Promised Land." 

In his message during the presentation of the Greek edition of the book, Mitsotakis said that Obama won a difficult bet and described his writing as balanced and thoroughly worked, and that he had already read two-thirds.

Trump selects Dr. Öz to serve on presidential council

U.S. President Donald Trump appointed on Dec. 11 Dr. Mehmet Öz to the President's Council on Sports, Fitness, and Nutrition alongside nearly 30 other individuals for two-year terms. 

Öz is being appointed alongside former New York Yankees closer Mariano Rivera, New England Patriots coach Bill Belichick, and likely baseball hall-of-famer Johnny Damon.

A light at the end of the tunnel

"Don't you love being alive?" "Don't you love weather and the colors... and all the sounds and noises like children screaming in the next lot, and automobile horns and little bands playing in the street and the smell of food cooking?" asks one of the characters in Katherine Anne Porter's "Pale Horse, Pale Rider," a story on surviving the 1918 flu pandemic.

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