The Lip Reader is celebrating its second publication anniversary behind wonderful reviews.
As the Pandemic receded, I felt a need for an adventure. I wanted to travel abroad, see a part of the world I had never visited, and meet nice people. Last spring my former roommates, Andrey and Jiyeon, sent me an invitation to their October 2023 wedding in Seoul, South Korea. Perfect! Before I even…
Deaf Utopia: A Memoir—and a Love Letter to a Way of Life is a New York Times best seller by Nyle DiMarco, a model, actor, and Deaf activist. His 331-page memoir is an eye-opener for people unfamiliar with the Deaf experience and Deaf culture. Unlike most deaf children born to hearing parents, the author and his…
The Deaf community has been marginalized too long by Audism and Surdophobia. Understanding these issues yields tolerance.
Six books on deafness are reviewed by Pop for your summer reading and help you navigate and understand the deaf experience.
Deaf characters in literature first appeared as two-dimensional figures, but in time have been fleshed out as sympathetic figures with problems that writers expose in their life-like fiction.
There’s more to a writer’s life than sitting in front of a computer and tapping on a keyboard.
Liam and Absalom run away from school bullies only to be abducted by a green alien as a contestant in an intergalactic beauty contest.
We know a lot about Black Americans with normal hearing, but what about Black Deaf Americans? Learn more…
The Lip Reader, a story about deafness and survival, was published one year ago. Come and help celebrate its anniversary.