Author Archives: artandliterature

Jaki Shelton Green Named Piedmont Laureate

The first Piedmont Laureate of North Carolina was officially named today — Saturday, November 15 — at the N.C. Writers’…

The DC premiere (November 13) of Godfrey Cheshire’s documentary Moving Midway was a real joy — not only the first…

An article in the latest issue of the Yale Alumni Magazine talks about the “infamous Harvard game of ’68” and…

File this one under “Someday My Blog Will Have a Staff”: 32 Poems is looking for 1-2 extra sets of…

I would say it’s that time of the semester, but I’m encountering “revisions” everywhere — and all the bad feelings…

I’m still slowly catching up on some of the books I’d gotten earlier this fall, especially the flurry of titles…

Michael Crichton died November 5, leaving behind an impressive career as the writer of a string of blockbuster techno-thrillers, ranging…

Leslie Klinger’s New Annotated Dracula is getting a fair amount of media attention these days, with articles in The L.A. Times,…

The problem with me as a blogger: I’m generally behind the times. Mary Ruffin Hanbury, a good friend from Raleigh,…

A brief quote for Election Day — from William James’ “The Moral Philosopher and the Moral Life,” first presented as an…