March 1, 2013 - 4:28pm
With his new book, ‘Burning the Middle Ground’, local writer and UofL professor L. Anderson Cooper will come to Carmichael’s Bookstore for a special reading and signing tonight, Friday, March 1st, at 7pm.
There are two dark spots on my chest. Right below my clavicles. Little dots the color of wine. “Wine” is a graceful way to describe this. “Plum” sounds succulent. “Eggplant” is a little quirky. But these are holes in my chest,...
March 1, 2013 - 1:06pm
Gorge yourself on literature this weekend as Locust Grove dishes out used books for sweet prices at their Spring Book Sale. Friday through Sunday, 10am – 4:30pm. I’ll be there with bells on. Literally, bells, if I can manage it. Because bells are just great.
If Anais Nin had been my mother we would have compared eye liner. Or so I like to imagine. Kohl around the lash line, water line – smudged at the edges, dirty, sultry – is something I know the two of us could have shared. A bond. My bird-like little literary lady-...
February 27, 2013 - 1:32pm
I’m really glad I’m writing about lightbulbs today. I’m also really glad human beings are going to talk about lighbulbs tonight. Author and historian Ernest Freeberg will present the glowing story of the modern age tonight at The Filson Historical Society with his new book, ‘The Age of Edison: Electric Light and the Invention of Modern America’. Rediscover the lightbulb starting at 6pm.
Nights in the city are orange. Have you seen? Watch what happens:You throw back your head and look to the heavens and the universe is not actually there. Gone are the Pleiades. The Big Dipper. No flicker of Rigel, Bellatrix or Betelgeuse. You’ll never see a...
February 21, 2013 - 4:59pm
You can download over a dozen free E-books from Blackwyrm Publishing until midnight (links for download included).
Louisville's own Blackwyrm Publishing is offering over a dozen free Ebooks through midnight tonight that can be downloaded from Amazon.com. Despite common misconception, you do not have to have a kindle to read the books. After you click to download the title, you are given the option to read...
February 21, 2013 - 12:32pm
Forget cowboys – find out how the west was won for real. Join historian Earl J. Hess tonight, Thursday, February 21st, at 6pm as he discusses the logistics of the Civil War’s Western theater at The Filson Historical Society.
There should be an impressive mustache. Something like an animal pelt there above the mouth. Majestic. Lush like a walrus. The mustache is the sidekick. The amigo. The drawn gun cocked and quivering above the lip. It bristles like a werewolf when threatened....
