Previous‘The Last Shot’ poem
- 06/12/2008 06:35 PM CDT
Colt 45. M-16. Glock 13. My brother and I watch The History of Guns. Diagrams and battle scenes, explain the ways of war. I learn
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Bibliofiles: Poets follow their own road
- 06/12/2008 07:10 PM CDT
The road.” There are other two-word phrases as evocative, I suppose, but this one will do for today. “The road” conjures so many things, especially for Americans: freedom, restlessness, loss, discovery. And on and on — and on.
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Book Review: Alan Dershowitz’s Is There a Right to Remain Silent?
- 06/12/2008 07:10 PM CDT
On Jan. 22, 2002, celebrity Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz caused an uproar when he published an essay in the San Francisco Chronicle in which he suggested that torturing suspected terrorists might be acceptable.
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LITERARY DATEBOOK
- 06/12/2008 07:10 PM CDT
VESPER BOOK CLUB: Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver. 10:30 a.m. June 19, Vesper Hall, 400 N.W. Vesper, Blue Springs. $1. Books available for pick up at Vesper Hall. (816-228-0181)
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Fantasy and Science Fiction: The Court of the Air and The Edge of Reason
- 06/12/2008 07:10 PM CDT
It’s easy to say there is something Dickensian about The Court of the Air (581 pages; Tor; $25.95) by Stephen Hunt. But this British steampunk novel does have its evocative elements.
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Suggestions for you night time readers
- 06/09/2008 04:16 AM CDT
I think of it as efficient living. For all the potential reading time I’ve wasted during the day by working and that other stuff, I make it up late at night. Whether it’s insomnia, habit or incessant monkey brain, as a friend puts it, I often find myself turning the light on at 3 a.m. and taking a book out of the stack.
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International society devoted to Ernest Hemingway gathers in Kansas City this week.
- 06/06/2008 12:20 PM CDT
On Jan. 11, 1918, Capt. Lewis Whisler entered the U.S. Army Bank at Camp Funston (the future Fort Riley) in Junction City, Kan., where he proceeded to bind and gag five fellow soldiers. He butchered them with an ax, looted the safe of $65,000 and quietly returned to his room in the barracks of the Second Battalion, 364th Infantry.
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Ben Fountain found inspiration in Ernest Hemingway and a reason to keep writing
- 06/05/2008 07:00 PM CDT
Like many teenagers, Ben Fountain didn’t have a very clear idea of what he wanted to do with his life. Then he read Ernest Hemingway.
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Leif Enger, author of Peace Like a River, presents his follow-up novel
- 06/05/2008 07:05 PM CDT
Let’s get this out of the way: Leif Enger, the author of Peace Like a River, a wildly successful debut novel, took seven years to write his second book.
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Tales of fathers sail on in The Boat
- 06/05/2008 07:05 PM CDT
LOS ANGELES | Father’s Day is a week from today. Nam Le has plenty of time to go out and buy his dad a card or a gift, but he really needn’t bother.
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Sedaris blows a little smoke
- 06/06/2008 12:22 PM CDT
For years David Sedaris has written so many wry and sometimes wacky stories about his life that any longtime fan might certainly ask: C’mon, how much of this really happened?
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LITERARY DATEBOOK
- 06/05/2008 07:20 PM CDT
INTERNATIONAL HEMINGWAY SOCIETY CONFERENCE: Programs include panel discussion with slide presentation, poetry readings, Beat Walk and Hemingway/PEN reading. June 9-15, various locations. If attending more than one program, $20 or more donations to the Ernest Hemingway Foundation are gratefully appreciated. www.hemingwaysociety.org
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Bibliofiles: Moving to the rhythm of the printed word
- 06/05/2008 07:20 PM CDT
LOS ANGELES | This column has nothing to do with my beat. Nothing and everything. This time last week I was at BookExpo, the publishing industry’s annual trade show. It’s a massive beast fed by thousands of booksellers, publicists, authors and journalists, who converge and try to convince one another they know something about the near future: Whether books will sell well over the next year, which books might rise and so on.
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LITERARY DATEBOOK
- 06/02/2008 04:09 PM CDT
INTERNATIONAL HEMINGWAY SOCIETY CONFERENCE: Programs include panel discussion with slide presentation, poetry readings, Beat Walk and Hemingway/PEN reading. June 9-15, various locations. If attending more than one program, $20 or more donations to the Ernest Hemingway Foundation is gratefully appreciated. www.hemingwaysociety.org
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Love in a life with cancer may sometimes go unsaid but not unexpressed
- 06/03/2008 04:25 AM CDT
The water is boiling for the pasta, the sauce is simmering, and the cancer jokes are flying around the kitchen.The water is boiling for the pasta, the sauce is simmering, and the cancer jokes are flying around the kitchen. The bald cancer jokes.
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Lewis Black says thinking just a bonus in his book about faith
- 06/02/2008 12:23 PM CDT
LOS ANGELES | Comedian Lewis Black points to the refrigerator in his office at Hollywood Center Studios.
