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Roy Podorson’s New Memoir Traces a Childhood Shaped by His Artist Father in Post-War New York
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During his advertising career spanning over four decades, Roy Podorson worked at prominent agencies such as Doyle Dane Bernbach, Scali McCabe Sloves, and McCann Erickson, has published a memoir of his childhood titled "The Artist in the Kitchen’s Son: A Real-Life Journey from Beekman New York, in 1943 to Brighton Beach Brooklyn, in 1951 and Beyond." The book is published through Page Publishing.
The memoir opens in 1943 on a farm in Beekman, New York, where, according to the book’s description, air raid sirens signaled families to pull their shades at night during the war years. Podorson, five years old at the time, walked more than a mile to a one-room schoolhouse and followed his older sister Alice through a childhood built around his father’s weekend returns from New York City, groceries in tow.
When the family relocated to Brighton Beach in 1949, the author began regularly commuting by subway to Union Square to meet his father on weekends The book describes his father as a dedicated home cook who held court in the kitchen for guests eating three meals a day, and who introduced his son to the Museum of Modern Art at age nine. There, Podorson encountered Alexander Calder’s mobiles, Edvard Munch’s "The Scream," and a Frank Lloyd Wright exhibit on a proposed mile-high skyscraper. Other scenes described in the book include a freight train passing by his bedroom window and a circus clown stacking fifteen chairs before toppling them during a show in Poughkeepsie.
Podorson is a graduate of Pratt Institute and later taught at the Delaware College of Art and Design. His advertising career included work on accounts for Volkswagen, Volvo, and American Airlines. In the announcement, he said writing the memoir let him "honor my father’s legacy and revisit the magical moments that defined my childhood," adding that he hopes readers connect with "the universal themes of family, creativity, and the transformative power of exposure to art and culture."
The book is available at bookstores and through Apple iTunes, Amazon, Google Play, and Barnes & Noble.
Studio CarryOnHarry sees this as part of a familiar but durable genre: the professional creative looking back to find where the eye was trained. Podorson spent decades making images for a living; the more interesting story here may be a career’s worth of advertising work traced to a kitchen table and a museum visit at age nine.
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Author Tonya Williams’s New Children’s Book Tells a Rescue Puppy’s Story Through the Lens of Her Wisconsin Ranch
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Tonya Williams has released "The Adventures of Loki and Friends," a children’s book narrated by a rescue puppy named Loki who leaves an uncertain start in Texas behind and finds a home on a working farm. The book is published through Christian Faith Publishing and is available now in bookstores and through major online retailers.
The story is told in Loki’s own voice. He arrives at his new home not knowing anyone, and the book follows him as he meets the farm’s other animals, including a donkey named Amos who becomes his closest friend, along with goats, horses, cattle, and potbellied pigs. According to the publisher’s description, each of these animals carries a story of its own, and Loki’s arrival becomes part of a larger web of relationships built around rescue, belonging, and gratitude.
Williams draws on her own background for the material. She grew up on a farm and now runs Never Done Ranch, a 200-acre property in Wisconsin, with her husband, raising cattle, horses, goats, and other livestock alongside family pets. That hands-on experience with animals, she says, shaped how she thinks about faith and resilience, and it’s the frame the book uses throughout: animals as both companions and, in Williams’s telling, instruments of spiritual lesson.
In her statement, Williams remarked that "Animals have been God’s instrument in my life to teach me about love, forgiveness, and purpose." "I wanted to share these lessons through Loki’s story so that children everywhere could understand that their pets are not just companions: they are teachers of the heart."
The book is categorized as juvenile nonfiction-adjacent fiction aimed at young, animal-loving readers, and is pitched as a faith-centered take on the familiar rescue-dog narrative, with the ranch setting giving it a specific, lived-in backdrop rather than a generic farm.
Studio CarryOnHarry sees the appeal here less in the plot than in the setting: a real working ranch, run by the author herself, lending a children’s book about rescue animals an unusual degree of authenticity.
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Through a Christian faith perspective, the devotional explores significant life transitions including career changes, empty nests, relocation, and shifts in marital status, per the publisher’s statement. Kiser draws on Romans 8:28 and Joshua 1:9 throughout, using those passages to argue that age shouldn’t be treated as a barrier to pursuing new direction later in life.
Kiser has spent roughly six decades working as an artist, writer, mentor and teacher, the announcement states. She now works from what she calls her Forever Home and Art Gallery, a space she describes as combining her art practice with her religious life. "My deepest desire is to help others see that every change, every season shift, is an opportunity to deepen our trust in God and discover His faithfulness anew," Kiser said in the announcement.
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