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Raconteurs aplenty when The Unchained Tour comes to Savannah on Feb. 10
Family business prevented me from attending that 2011 Unchained Tour in Savannah, but I’m planning to make the 2011 version, scheduled for 8 p.m., Friday, Feb. 10th at the Savannah History Museum at 303 Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd. And…
Joan Didion on her latest book “Blue Nights”
Joan Didion reads from her new book “Blue Nights”:
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The Unchained Tour’s Kickstarter campaign for “A ‘Rolling Greek Temple’ of Brilliant Raconteurs”
Because of out-of-town family commitments, I had to miss the sold-out Savannah appearance earlier this year of The Unchained Tour, a storytelling project that traveled throughout Georgia in support of independent bookstores. But that local gig was obviously a big…
Five of The Dead Sea Scrolls now online
I love this news. The Israel Museum now has a new site with incredibly high-res images of five of the Dead Sea Scrolls: The Digital Dead Sea Scrolls. Here’s a video overview — just a couple minutes along — on…
Great series of free Sunday lectures this fall at the Flannery O’Connor Childhood Home
After three years as president of the Flannery O’Connor Childhood Home, I was kind of thrilled to give up the leadership reins to Helen Borrello earlier this summer. But I’m still on the board and will likely stay involve on…
Philip Levine: a perfect poet laureate for these tough times
I was thrilled to read in the NYT a few minutes ago that Philip Levine, the 83-year old Detroit native who held blue collar jobs as a young man, has been chosen by librarian of Congress James Billington as the…
Edgar Allen Poe house in Baltimore possibly closing: budget cuts can cut us off from history
An interesting piece on Sunday in the NYT: Poe Museum Is Threatened With ‘Nevermore’. (Since I started this draft, the title has changed: Fiscal Woe Haunting Baltimore Poe House). From the piece: For a second year city leaders have chosen…
Regretting the end of Borders
In spring 1993, when I was living just outside Philadelphia, I quit a fulltime teaching job even though I had no clear plan what I would do next. I had saved a little money, so the next step really didn’t…
Flannery O’Connor a character in new novel; author in Savannah July 14th
Flannery O’Connor famously said: “There won’t be any biographies of me because, for only one reason, lives spent between the house and the chicken yard do not make exciting copy.” Well, a couple of years ago Brad Gooch proved that…
National Book Award-winning novelist Jaimy Gordon to speak in Savannah on February 24th
As some of you may know, I’m currently the president of the board of the Flannery O’Connor Childhood Home. We’ve brought in some great speakers over the last few years: Brad Gooch launched his widely acclaimed Flannery: A Life of…
Spreading the inspirational story of Waddie Welcome
A reader of Waddie Welcome and the Beloved Community is first struck by the bold, strange cover. The photo depicts a hand-crafted collage of a phonebook, compiled over decades by Addie Reeves. Ms. Reeves was a lifelong friend of Mr.…
Some thoughts on Just Kids by Patti Smith
About a year ago, when I first heard that Patti Smith had written Just Kids, a book about her long friendship with Robert Mapplethorpe, I immediately flashed back to 1995. I was working at a Borders in Philadelphia when Patricia…