If you’re in New York, spend an evening with the authors of Barnum Brown: The Man Who Discovered Tyrannosaurus Rex at the American Museum of Natural History on October 21st at 7pm. …
Read More >Paul Gregutt, wine columnist for the Seattle Times and Northwest editor for Wine Enthusiast magazine, embarks on a tour of Washington State this fall in support of his newly revised and updated …
Read More >Thanks to everyone who entered our first Autobiography of Mark Twain galley giveaway. The winner, chosen randomly from all the entries we received, is Kenneth Chaney and his favorite Twain title is …
Read More >As some of you may have heard, we’ll be releasing The Autobiography of Mark Twain later this year. Heck, we’ve even put up a lovely website, thisismarktwain.com, to highlight some of the …
Read More >If you saw yesterday’s post highlighting KQED’s Forum discussion with authors Tyche Hendricks and Peter Schrag and listened to the insightful interview, you heard a lot about immigration in the US, both …
Read More >This past Saturday, W. Joseph Campbell launched his book, Getting it Wrong, with a talk and book signing at the Newseum in Washington, DC. He brings us the highlights, and audience members’ …
Read More >“We are the first generation that can predict the future of the world…We can also choose to shape the future.”—The Atlas of Global Conservation Today, 40 years after the first Earth Day, …
Read More >Today through Saturday, April 24, the Chicago Poetry Project is co-sponsoring The Truth and Life of Myth, a Robert Duncan Symposium. “The surety of the myth for the poet has such force …
Read More >Yesterday on KPFA 94.1 FM, Jack Foley hosted the prequel to an 8-part series based on Poems for the Millennium Volume Three, edited by Jerome Rothenberg and Jeffrey C. Robinson. In yesterday’s …
Read More >To stay alive, animals must eat and avoid being eaten. This means they must develop hunting and escape strategies, many of which they learn from their parents: “Youngsters who learn from their …
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