July 29, 2012 - 8:02pm
Dust off those poetry pants (although summery shorts are now also acceptable) and hold pinkies aloft. This month’s 21c Reading Series will feature poets Matt Bell and Wayne Miller tonight, Monday, June 25th at 7:30pm.
…And the livin’ is easy. Or not. I do not support Summer; sure, I’ll abide that Summer exists, is enjoyed by most and must be tolerated, but – much like certain kinds of politics – I refuse to acknowledge that Summer should exist. Oppressive air and...
July 29, 2012 - 8:08pm
Ready to bond over book-making? Sign up and try out a number of book and paper making sessions tomorrow, Saturday, June 23rd, at Historic Locust Grove.
Books are sensuous creatures. While stereotypically associated with the “nerd persona” – a generally asexual and reserved aura – these innocently-cloaked and unobtrusive paper animals have a rich flesh experience that I, personally, find intoxicating (probably because...
July 29, 2012 - 8:07pm
Join professor, writer and spiritual thinker James Grote as he shares his new release, ‘Medieval Literacy: A Compendium of Medieval Knowledge with the Guidance of C.S. Lewis’ tonight, Thursday, June 21st, at A Reader’s Corner Bookstore at 6pm.
The list of things we “know” is forever changing form. Like some kind of shape-shifting chimera, our concept of knowledge (thirst for, quest for, meaning of etc. etc.) is more fluid than we are often comfortable admitting. How many things do we actually know know? How...
July 29, 2012 - 8:08pm
Looking for another chapter beyond ‘Pride & Prejudice’? Sandy Lerner, writing under the penname ‘Ava Farmer’, will present just that with her book ‘Second Impressions’. Join The Jane Austen Society for a reading and signing this upcoming Thursday, June 21st, at 6:30pm.
Jane Austen did not write The Great American Novel. Nope. This would be highly impossible – first and foremost because Ms. Austen was decidedly not American – but namely because her contributions against the Romanticism movement so indicative of her era could not (and do not...
July 29, 2012 - 8:07pm
With the release of Marilyn Buck’s posthumously-released poetry collection, ‘Inside/Out’, Carmichael’s Bookstore and a group of local poets will gather this Thursday, June 21st at 7pm to honor the life and writing of the activist and poet.
I believe we all aspire to greatness. Being the imaginative and, yes, self-absorbed creatures that we are, most of us play host to at least one vision of ourselves achieving a level of notoriety that sets us apart from the inevitable drudgery required by most modern circles of living. ...
