October 3, 2012 - 11:09am
Author and journalist, Hanna Rosin, discusses ‘The End of Men’ at the Library
The senior editor of ‘The Atlantic’ explores the new sexual dynamic between men and women. Join Hanna Rosin as she presents her new book, ‘The End of Men’ at the Louisville Free Public Library tomorrow, October 4th, at 7pm.
It’s complicated.  This is an extremely simple phrase.  Three words – one of which gets swallowed into a conjunctive shortening – and a handful of syllables that just slide off the tongue.  Easy as pie; smooth as silk.  It ain’t no thing.  But the...
October 2, 2012 - 11:20am
Toga Party or book signing? Michael Williams reads from and signs "Vine: An Urba
U of L professor and author Michael Williams will be offering a Q & A session in addition to reading and signing his latest book "Vine: An Urban Legend", which is described as greek tragedy meets urban legend. Although paper tragedie masks are provided to the first 75 to arrive, people are encouraged to bring their own toga.
Michael Williams is a Humanities professor at the University of Louisville who will be reading and signing his book  Vine: An Urban Legend in the Chao Auditorium located in the lower level of the Ekstrom Library on Tuesday, October 2 at 6 p.m. The book is described as "greek tragedy...
October 1, 2012 - 11:04am
Soap stars Bill Hayes and Susan Seaforth Hayes bring their new book to local Bar
The duo from “Days of Our Lives” will hit up The Summit area Barnes & Noble tonight, Monday, October 1st, presenting their new book, ‘Trumpet’ at 6:30pm.
I recall quite vividly my best friend’s basement.  In the early 90s, the idea of a “big screen T.V.” meant doing a stress test to ensure a soundly structured floor – you know what I’m talking about.  Those leviathans of the living room, what happen to be...
September 28, 2012 - 12:07pm
Celebrate the freedom to read at Carmichael’s during National Banned Books Week
No black bars to be found here, my friends. Raise your favorite scandalous softcover to the sky; kick off Banned Books Week at Carmichael’s Bookstore this Sunday, September 30th, at 4pm as lawyer and media expert Jeremy Rogers discusses censorship.
It is perhaps my greatest ambition in life to write a banned book.  A work of staggering proportions that shakes the constitutions of the delicate, disturbs the comfortable.  A book with mettle, with the balls to rattle the bones of the modern-minded, the liberated, the advanced - to...
September 25, 2012 - 11:00am
Lien-Hang Nguyen takes a literary look at the Vietnam war at UofL
Associate history professor, Lien-Hang Nguyen brings her new book ‘Hanoi’s War: An International History of the War for Peace in Vietnam’ to the University of Louisville this coming Thursday, September 27th at 6:30pm.
It is a rather unfortunate fact of living as human: we are not the calm, docile animals of peace that we would always like to be.  As far as tempers go, we as a race of Earthling are short-fused and full of gun powder – often as individuals and especially in large numbers.  It...