by Alison Bass | Aug 27, 2024 | Uncategorized
A number of people have asked how I came up with the idea of writing a sequel to Sir Walter Scott’s Ivanhoe, the story of a knight in medieval England who saves a beautiful Jewish healer from being burned alive as a witch. I often concoct stories as a way to get...
by Alison Bass | Jul 29, 2024 | Uncategorized
My novel, Rebecca of Ivanhoe, is now available for preorder on Amazon, Bookshop, Barnes & Noble and wherever books are sold online. It is a sequel to Sir Walter Scott’s Ivanhoe, which tells the story of a knight in medieval England who rescues a beautiful Jewish...
by Alison Bass | Apr 10, 2024 | Uncategorized
Okay, I’ll admit it: I was already angry at UnitedHealthcare for yanking up the premium for my supplemental plan G in the middle of the year, after previously raising the premium just a few months prior. And then I read this disturbing article in the New York...
by Alison Bass | Feb 22, 2024 | Uncategorized
My novel, Rebecca of Ivanhoe, has been accepted by Bedazzled Ink Publishing and will be released in October. It is a sequel to Sir Walter Scott’s Ivanhoe, which told the story of a knight in medieval England who rescues a beautiful Jewish healer from being burned...
by Alison Bass | Aug 23, 2023 | Uncategorized
The title of the Profs and Pints lecture, “What will happen when Vladimir Putin is no longer Russia’s president?” was intriguing so I decided to go to the event. Profs and Pints takes place at Penn Social, a bar and event space in northwest DC, and it...
by Alison Bass | Jul 25, 2023 | Uncategorized
Last winter I had a bright idea: I would buy an affordable electric car for tooling around Washington, D.C. and park my old Toyota Camry at our family house on Martha’s Vineyard. That way, I could save on gas and fly in and out of the island from D.C. every...
by Alison Bass | Jul 11, 2023 | Uncategorized
Now that COVID is (hopefully) in our rear view mirrors, the Edgartown Library has invited me to give a talk about my memoir, Brassy Broad: How one Journalist helped pave the way to #MeToo, on July 29 at 11 am. The event at the library, which is located at 26 West...
by Alison Bass | Jun 19, 2023 | Uncategorized
Before I retired, I enjoyed teaching journalism at West Virginia University. I had some truly motivated and gifted students and I liked most of my colleagues, a talented bunch of former journalists and public relations professionals. But I’m glad I’m no...
by Alison Bass | May 15, 2023 | Uncategorized
As a sexual assault survivor myself, I followed the Carroll vs Trump trial with great interest. Would a jury finally believe a sexual assault victim who didn’t scream or go to the police? When I was raped in London during my junior year abroad almost 50 years...
by Alison Bass | May 2, 2023 | Uncategorized
As you may recall, shortly after I moved to DC and before I had a chance to get my District license plates, I was slapped with two hefty speeding violations within two weeks while driving along the same stretch of road in NE Washington. Each were for $100. I...
