March 8, 2013 - 1:45pm
This ain’t no travel brochure for the Bluegrass, son. Bestseller, Frank Bill, will bring his raw new novel, ‘Donnybrook’, to Carmichael’s Bookstore tonight, March 8th, at 7pm for a special reading and signing.
It was a mud tattoo, and over the course of the night it transformed – blending like a sunset – from dark blood colors into a spray of light caramel on my legs. Drying. Flecks on the skin like individual feathers along my calves. I didn’t bother to clean it off....
March 7, 2013 - 1:10pm
No Louisvillian should ever grow tired of a good story from Waverly Hills Sanitarium. Join author James Market at The Summit area Barnes & Noble for a special signing of his new book, ‘A White Wind Blew’, tonight, March 7th, at 6:30pm.
There are a lot of things in this world that drip. Trickle. Drift. Pour. This is a wet planet – “the blue planet” they call it – and everything flows. It is how the earth breathes. The earth is a sea mammal. But outside of the...
March 6, 2013 - 3:22pm
Tinkering, toying and maybe some puffs of smoke – author Jon Gertner brings his new book, ‘The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation’, to the Louisville Free Public Library’s Main branch tonight, March 6th, at 7pm.
One side. That is the absolute best that I can do. Give me a dark corner, some time alone, an idle mind and yes – I will reach for that Rubik’s cube. I will squeeze – delightfully so – all the little squares together, spongy and springy the way that they...
March 1, 2013 - 4:28pm
With his new book, ‘Burning the Middle Ground’, local writer and UofL professor L. Anderson Cooper will come to Carmichael’s Bookstore for a special reading and signing tonight, Friday, March 1st, at 7pm.
There are two dark spots on my chest. Right below my clavicles. Little dots the color of wine. “Wine” is a graceful way to describe this. “Plum” sounds succulent. “Eggplant” is a little quirky. But these are holes in my chest,...
March 1, 2013 - 1:06pm
Gorge yourself on literature this weekend as Locust Grove dishes out used books for sweet prices at their Spring Book Sale. Friday through Sunday, 10am – 4:30pm. I’ll be there with bells on. Literally, bells, if I can manage it. Because bells are just great.
If Anais Nin had been my mother we would have compared eye liner. Or so I like to imagine. Kohl around the lash line, water line – smudged at the edges, dirty, sultry – is something I know the two of us could have shared. A bond. My bird-like little literary lady-...
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