Philip Roth: Unmasked
Take a ride on the Philip Roth Tour Bus and see the sights of Roth's Newark, New Jersey -- his hometown and setting of several of his books, like Goodbye Columbus, Portnoy’s Complaint and I Married a Communist.
TOM MCNAMARA
Mel Brooks: Make a Noise
What came first: the Mel Brooks movie or the cliché? The classic Hollywood Sci-Fi spaceship always gets gratuitous screentime from every camera angle. Mel Brooks’s Hollywood spaceship appears in a continuous one minute and 40 second scene detailing its ridiculous length.
Mel Brooks: Make a Noise
For Mel Brooks the spoofing is in the details. The classic Hollywood Horror film is always black-and-white and includes scene transitions like iris outs, wipes and fades to black. Mel Brooks’s Hollywood Horror is no different. He even tracks down the original equipment from the ...
Mel Brooks: Make a Noise
Mel Brooks never met a stereotype he couldn’t upend. The classic Hollywood cowboy is always white. Mel Brooks’s Hollywood cowboy is black. And his Indian chief speaks Yiddish.
The Day Carl Sandburg Died
CHICAGO POEMS, published by Carl Sandburg in 1916, is an ode to a city. It's a clear eyed and unapologetic love letter: where you tell your true-love you love them not in spite of their imperfections but because of them. This was Sandburg's first volume ...
The Day Carl Sandburg Died
From Carl Sandburg's Rootabaga Stories: The story of two skyscrapers, a tin brass goose and a tin brass goat, a long distance train, and the Northwest Wind.
The Day Carl Sandburg Died
Carl Sandburg's The American Songbag: songs he collected traveling a country that was as pretty as it was hard.
The Day Carl Sandburg Died
Carl Sandburg was a tall tale. Yes, he was only a man. But, his words were Paul Bunyan; his words were John Henry: impossibly real. The way Sandburg wrote, he gave life to anything and everything around him: from mountains to oceans, from prairies to ...
The Day Carl Sandburg Died
An exploration of the Carl Sandburg Archive from the Rare Book & Manuscript Library at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign.
The Day Carl Sandburg Died
Hear Carl Sandburg sing, 'I Ride an Old Paint,' recorded sometime in the 1930s or 40s, and published as a part of his The American Songbag. Sandburg: 'The song smells of saddle leather, sketches ponies and landscapes, and varies in theme from a realistic presentation ...