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How Six to Eight Grains of Rice and a Foot Surgery Turned a Manitowoc Woman Into an Author
22+ min ago (213+ words) A bizarre and hilarious personal experience has helped a Manitowoc woman enter the world of publishing. Wendy Kurth is the author of “The Great Rice Incident”, which tells her true story of “foot surgery, poor navigation, and one robot’s refusal…...
Tsukamoto turns a Black Marine’s Vietnam guilt into raw body-horror in Mr. Nelson
3+ hour, 13+ min ago (174+ words) What it does not settle is whether a redemption arc can hold a perpetrator to account at all, or whether the form itself lets Nelson off the hook. The Vietnamese remain largely a backdrop to an American recovery, and the…...
Book Review | Do Stories Bind Humanity?
2+ hour, 18+ min ago (330+ words) Deccan Chronicle Wendy Donigerâs 1998 title, The Implied Spider: Politics and Theology in Myth, is rooted in a conversation between two anthropologists American anthropologist Clifford Geertz famously invokes the image of âwebs of significanceâ: the interconnected meanings through which…...
Weinstein Hammons Exhibition Puts Patti Smith, Robert Mapplethorpe, and Lynn Davis in Focus
1+ day, 22+ hour ago (698+ words) This exhibition will be the first Davis, Mapplethorpe, and Smith group show anywhere in the world. Both Hammons and Ward Stout confirm the idea has been percolating for years, but something always thwarted its momentum. “Mapplethorpe is represented by 14 galleries…...
SUNDAY WITH PHILOSOPHY JANE | Nobody Wants the Last Piece
2+ hour, 57+ min ago (1560+ words) If there had been two pieces, nobody would have behaved strangely. Two pieces are food and can be distributed without discussion. One piece is different; one piece requires governance. We had reached this crisis at 8:16 on an otherwise pleasant Saturday…...
Fortress Merge Review
1+ hour, 35+ min ago (378+ words) Fast-forward a week and I am still playing Fortress Merge. I feel dirty for playing it – and I’m well aware of its flaws as I chug on through the levels. But I am genuinely enjoying myself. I’m not entirely sure…...
Free haiku writing workshops coming to Arrowhead libraries in October
3+ hour, 28+ min ago (212+ words) Author Sandra Hisakuni will present workshops titled "The Northland Beckons: Writing in Haiku" at libraries throughout northeastern Minnesota in October. GRAND RAPIDS — The Arrowhead Library System will host a series of free writing workshops at libraries throughout northeastern Minnesota in…...
LSU Dean of Honors College examines Abraham Lincoln's 1860 run for president in new book
2+ hour, 28+ min ago (1059+ words) "He Has the People: Abraham Lincoln and the Election of 1860" by Jonathan Earle Jonathan Earle, the dean of LSU Ogden Honors College, is the author of "He Has the People: Abraham Lincoln and the Election of 1860." Jonathan Earle, the dean…...
Franklin County native Joshua Nichols turns ATU writing assignment into book contract
4+ hour, 28+ min ago (741+ words) RUSSELLVILLE -- What began as a graduate student project in the Arkansas Tech University writing lab has blossomed into a burgeoning writing career for Joshua Nichols. A native of Franklin County and graduate of Ozark High School, Nichols began his post-secondary…...
My Journey to Memoiristan (1)
10+ hour, 32+ min ago (345+ words) In today’s Nigeria, the past seems to have suddenly come roaring back at us with a rampaging urgency and untidy vengeance. The “ restless past” has come alive as a dimension of time with historical urgency. Rightfully, the most topical memoirs…...