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Lit Life “She is my alter ego,” says Sue Grafton of her fictional heroine, Southern California private detective Kinsey Millhone . “I’m an introvert, so doing half of what Kinsey is beyond my poor capabilities. But it’s fun to get to live her life without penalty!” Grafton, on the phone from her home in Montecito, California, is the best-selling author of what’s known to countless mystery fans as “the alphabet series .” The project has become Grafton’s life’s work, beginning with “A Is for Alibi” in 1982 and continuing through this month’s publication of “Y Is for Yesterday” (Putnam, $29). The final book in the 26-volume series, “Z Is for Zero,” will be out in 2019. And while the rest of us have aged several decades, Kinsey’s gotten only a few years older. Early on, Grafton said, she realized that even if she wrote a book a year, “after 26 years [Kinsey’s] going to be way too old to be running around hitting bad guys with her pocketbook. I thought I’d better keep her credibly young, ...

Photo source: Twitter-Thanks [email protected] In Charlottesville, Virginia, America bore witness to a torch lit procession of White hate group members marching across the campus of the University of Virginia. The next day, a wider protest by these hate mongering groups led to chaos, injury and the death of one woman, Heather Heyer. These acts of hate are no longer an isolated incident; they have been occurring with an increasing frequency. Here are some of the most violent race attacks against people of color, so far in 2017. Anaheim (Photo Credit: Loyal White Knights of the KKK flyer handout ) Members of the  Ku Klux Klan  were arrested for stabbing three people in Anaheim, California. The incident took place on Feb. 27 when several members of the KKK decided to hold a rally to speak out against illegal immigrants and Muslims at Pearson Park. HBCU student Richard Collins III killed by White supremacist days before graduation via Richard Collins III Facebook page /via Universi...

It took less than a month to find a new use for the palatial sandstone building in the heart of Edinburgh that was once a jewel of Sir Philip Green ’s retail empire. The Scottish capital was one of more than 100 British towns and cities to see a large gap open up in its high street when BHS collapsed last year. For some provincial shopping streets , the clothing and homeware outlet had been their biggest draw. The chain’s demise has forced landlords to be creative in filling those gaps, often by embracing gym operators and pound shops as well as other retailers, in the hope they can seed life in the darkened stores. With other department stores looking vulnerable, having survived a cyclical downturn only to be plunged into a new battle against obsolescence, what has happened to BHS’s stores might prove instructive for the future. Scottish Home Stores on Princes Street in Edinburgh © Alamy On Edinburgh’s bustling Princes Street , local entrepreneurs reopened the former BHS as “ S...