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A Writers' Magazine
May 01, 2008; Skinner, David ... I don't go, as boxing fans say, to the fights. I do, however, like a good dustup in the arenas of grammar and usage. Of course, who doesn't enjoy a little roughhousing when comma placement is at stake? But these set-tos over punctuation and usage sometimes leave me feeling cheapened, as the ...
Curio
May 01, 2008; Anonymous ... TAKE MY HUSBAND PLEASE From the May 1, 1908, San Francisco Call, digitized in the California Digital Nfwspaper Collection, and hosted by the Center for Bibliographical Studies and Research at the University of California at Riverside. BRIDE GIVES UP TO PRISON Her Society Thief ....
The Artist as Showman A Conversation with John Updike
May 01, 2008; Cole, Bruce ... Jefferson Lecturer John Updike shares his passion for American art with NEH Chairman Bruce Cole. Updike, a Pulitzer Prize-winner and well-known novelist, has also written two volumes of art criticism; Just Looking and Still Looking. BRUCE COLE: I think I may have told you that in my ...
A FAN'S NOTES | On Updike's Long Game
May 01, 2008; Gopnik, Adam ... It was a commonplace even hack a few decades ago to insist that American writers, at their best, were beautiful and damned, to borrow a title from one of the most beautiful and damned of all. They either drank themselves to death too soon, or wrote themselves out too rapidly, became self-made ...
The Word Museum Exploring the literary treasures of the Rosenbach
May 01, 2008; Siegel, Harry ... Reinvention may just be the oldest American tradition, and there are few museums that embody that tradition quite like the Rosenbach Museum & Library in Philadelphia. The museum is in two joined townhouses on a quiet residential block in Center City. You could walk by every day ...
Liebling's War
May 01, 2008; Thomas, Francis-Noel ... The idea that journalism is not "literature" is such a deeply entrenched preudice that even writers and editors who have spent their lives in journalism and have achieved literary distinction as journalists sometimes speak as if what they write and edit is not literature. This prejudice can be ...
LUSH LIFE
May 01, 2008; Lifson, Amy ... Robert Levi's documentary BiHy Strayhorn-Lush Life has received a Peabody Award for its sensitivity in recounting the life of Duke ...
ITALIAN HONORS
May 01, 2008; Lifson, Amy ... NEH Chairman Bruce Cole received the Knight of the Grand Cross/ the highest honor bestowed by the Italian government. At a ceremony at the Italian Embassy in March, Italian Ambassador Giovanni Castellaneta cited Cole's devotion to the ongoing study of Italian art and culture ....
SLAVE STATS ONLINE
May 01, 2008; Lifson, Amy ... Two hundred years ago, the United States and Great Britain outlawed the transatlantic slave trade that had been active for nearly three centuries. Now, data from about 35,000 voyages of slave ships have revised the estimates of how many Africans were transported to the New World. Instead of the ...
THE DIGITAL AGE
May 01, 2008; Lifson, Amy ... Seventy-five quarto editions of Shakespeare's plays are to be digitized and made accessible online by the Folger Shakespeare Library in conjunction with the University of Oxford, the Shakespeare Institute at the University of Birmingham, and the Maryland Institute of Technology in the ...
KIDS' FESTIVAL
May 01, 2008; Lifson, Amy ... The Chicago Humanities Festival has expanded to include a weeklong event just for children. Running from May 3 through 10, the festival presents programs in five Chicago neighborhoods and brings ...
In Focus: Jane Brailove Rutkoff
May 01, 2008; Patterson, Mary Jo ... IT WAS A COLD MARCH EVENING IN 2003 AND JANE BRAILOVE RUTKOFF, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF THE New Jersey Council for the Humanities, was heading home from a screening of a film the council funded shortly after 9/11 that examined anti-Muslim sentiment in Jersey Crty. The city is home to many ethnic ...
Gangs of Baltimore
May 01, 2008; Ford, Martin ... The 2008 presidential election has generated unusual enthusiasm, but in the weeks following the vote, we can expect the usual complainte about how the political process has been corrupted by the influence of special interests, the superficiality of sound-bite media coverage, or the narrowness of ...
Rabbit Whole
May 01, 2008; Gopnik, Adam ... A selection of readings from John Updike's art criticism From JUST LOOKING, "An Outdoor Vermeer Once I vowed to see every Vermeer hanging in a public museum throughout the world, and did in time stand before many of them. There are fewer than forty authenticated paintings by this ...
A Roundup of Activities Sponsored by the State Humanities Councils
May 01, 2008; Scanlan, Laura Wolff ... ARIZONA The Museum of Northern Arizona in Flagstaff hosts the 18th Annual Zuni Festival of Arts and Culture May 24-25. "Dialogues for Creativity and Culture" explores Zuni language, migration, industry, music, and traditional dances. "Conceptual Poetry and Its Others/' a public ...
Impertinent Questions
May 01, 2008; Anonymous ... MARGARET A. HOGAN AS THE MANAGING EDITOR OF THE ADAMS PAPERS AND PRIMARY EDITOR FORADAMS FAMILY CORRESPONDENCE, Margaret A. Hogan has an all-access pass to the lives of John, Abigail, John Quincy, and the rest of the Adams dynasty. The Massachusetts Historical Society, which sponsors the ...