Her forthcoming novel, While Justice Sleeps (out May 11), is about a Supreme Court Justice who uncovers a deadly conspiracy involving the president of the United States, before slipping into a coma. She wrote the book, her first thriller, nearly a decade ago, before she was a politician and activist on the national stage. Publishers passed on the book, twice, before Abrams was able to sell it in 2019 to Doubleday. "For two topics like the Supreme Court and the presidency, [which] have been rehashed again and again by thriller writers," Abrams says, "there may have been in that moment a view that we have enough of this type of book."
Here, she tells WSJ. about her favorite spot to get her writing done, her reasons for previously using a pen name and why she never lets her characters be defined by their Blackness.
"The thing is, I really am a Californian," says renowned art bookseller Dagny Janss Corcoran of her new appointment overseas, "and Paris has always been a place that's interested in California."
As though shaped by time and memory, design objects in shades of black have a transcendent, otherworldly quality. We round up the best
"Menorca, if you're not patient, it's not for you," says Christophe Comoy of the five-year renovation of a 19th-century farmhouse he undertook with his partner, Luis Laplace. "It's heaven."
"Dara is taking a seat at the decision-making table," says designer Prabal Gurung of the 28-year-old trans model and stylist
Everyday Hero: This hero has a canine hero of her own
"To help kids to understand what the doctors are going to do, why they're doing it and how it's going to feel." Frohnerath said, describing part of what she does.
"She was trained by canine companions for independence. She has the same training and expertise that a service animal has," Frohnerath said.
As a young child, Frohnerath was diagnosed with cerebral palsy with the diagnosis later changed to hereditary spastic paraplegia.
Part of her therapy included equine therapy and those years taught her the power and importance of the bond with animals.
And as a professional, the chance to help other children with Brea by her side was the perfect match.
With Manchin in the limelight, West Virginia's other senator seizes her moment - POLITICO
Shelley Moore Capito is playing a starring role in Washington's central debate over Joe Biden's infrastructure plan.
Sen. Shelley Moore Capito is a self-described "worker bee" who would rather broker deals than join Senate leadership. | Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images
Everyone in politics studies Joe Manchin's every utterance these days. They should also start tuning into the other senator from West Virginia.
As West Virginia's Democratic senator wields veto power over his party's agenda, the Mountain State's GOP Sen. Shelley Moore Capito is playing a starring role in Washington's central debate over President Joe Biden's infrastructure plan. It's a new gig for Capito, a heads-down senator suddenly tasked with simultaneously uniting conservative Republicans around negotiating with Biden and steering big-spending Democrats away from leaving the GOP in the dust.
She is a self-described "worker bee" who would rather broker deals than join Senate leadership, even though she's close to Senate GOP leader Mitch McConnell. Her colleagues in both parties say she's less talk and more action, an uncommon trait among many members of Congress these days.
But Capito is also the face of the GOP's $568 billion infrastructure counteroffer to Biden's much larger plan. And watching her will inform whether the Senate can scrap its reputation for gridlock during Biden's presidency.
"This is a big role for me," Capito said in an interview. "It's raised not just my profile, but also my profile as a serious legislator who wants to be a part of something we can do together."
Capito is already facing severe headwinds: Senate Democrats say her bid is not a serious counter to Biden's $2 trillion-plus plan. Still, the White House called Capito's entreaty a "good-faith" effort, suggesting the second-term senator is still in the game.
Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.) said she has plenty of questions about Capito's proposal but cheered her efforts.
Student once told college was not for her is graduating with Polk State bachelor's degree | Polk
When Victoria Baptiste was a junior in high school, a guidance counselor told her that college is not for everyone and that it did not seem like an option for her.
In May, she will graduate from Polk State College with her Bachelor of Applied Science in Supervision and Management with a concentration in Public Administration and she aspires to use her degree, skills, and knowledge to positively impact students in underserved communities.
"I want to show students that someone cares about them and their success, and I want to lead by example for them."
In her senior year of high school, she moved from her hometown of Long Island to Maine, where another guidance counselor gave her the motivation to start her college journey.
"I told him I wasn't planning to go to college, and he said that was nonsense," Baptiste said. "He helped me fill out my application for the community college in Maine. I wasn't sure what I wanted to do, but I remembered my kindergarten teacher and how she inspired me to love school at such a young age. I told my guidance counselor 'I guess I will study education.'"
As the first in her family of five siblings to attend college, she was not sure how to navigate the world of higher education. After one year, she dropped out.
"I told myself that the guidance counselor who told me college was not for me was right all along," Baptiste said.
She continued to follow her innate passion for uplifting youth by working with children in a preschool and then as a nanny.
In 2016, she moved to Florida to teach voluntary prekindergarten education at Dayspring Academy in New Port Richey.
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