Busy, busy. So much to do. But how about stopping by Snow City Cafe on West 4th Avenue tomorrow (Friday) evening for the AQR First Friday series? There will be an art opening at 5:30 followed at 7:00 by live music and readings from Alaska Quarterly Review’s 25th anniversary issues. Staying home instead? If you’re […]
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Tonight millions of viewers will watch the highly anticipated debate between Sarah Palin and Joe Biden, and we’ll explore another facet of the cult of the amateur – whether eloquence matters. Sarah says we need an American in the White House who represents “Joe Six-Pack.” But can’t a vice president represent Joe Six-Pack and also
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It’s Banned Book Week, a great time to celebrate our freedom to read — in Wasilla or anywhere else in this great country! The ALA provides this list of the most challenged books and the reasons they caused a stir (see below for the 2007 list). Tomorrow, Thursday, beginning at 4:00, Title Wave Books in
I’m always struggling to decide how to treat the Sarah subject on this blog. Anyone reading this can guess my leanings but I try to steer clear of outright political rants (as tempting as a rant would be) in favor of approaching candidates from a literary perspective. Thank you, Slate, for providing an acceptable angle
As I mentioned last week, I’ve been reading Andrew Keen’s The Cult of the Amateur: How Today’s Internet is Killing Our Culture. Keen proposes that blogs are part of the problem – a big problem – so perhaps a blog is an odd forum for discussing his observations. But there’s a lot to ponder in
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