Oct 06 'Hemingway's Boat': How Pilar Weathered the Storms of Fame, Ruin EmbedVideo(1689, 480, 304); It's been 50 years since Ernest Hemingway was found next to his shotgun in Ketchum, Idaho. Yet the life and times of the iconic American author remains an open book for scholars and historians to… Continue reading
Oct 06 The Daily Frame A visitor looks at "The Saints Rocco Sebastian Jerome and Helena" by 15th century painter Filippino Lippi. Photo by Alberto Pizzoli/ AFP/ Getty Images. Continue reading
Oct 06 Watch Stephane Hessel Wants You to Get Mad Diplomat and author Stephane Hessel talks about his booklet, "Time for Outrage."… Continue watching
Oct 05 Watch Hemingway and His Boat: New Book Offers Insight Into Elusive Writer Hemingway and His Boat: New Book Offers Insight Into Elusive Writer… Continue watching
Oct 05 Watch War-Torn Liberia Struggles to Care for Mentally Ill War-Ravaged Liberia Faces Challenge of Caring for Mentally Ill… Continue watching
Oct 05 Watch Poet Philip Schultz Details Life-Long Struggle in New Memoir 'My Dyslexia' Poet Philip Schultz Recalls a Life-Long Struggle in 'My Dyslexia'… Continue watching
Oct 05 Poet Philip Schultz Shares His Work Philip Schultz is a poet, fiction writer and educator. He has been teaching creative writing for nearly 30 years. In 1987, he founded the Writers Studio in New York. He won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for "Failure."… Continue reading
Oct 05 A Day with the Occupiers of Wall Street By Elizabeth Shell We spent yesterday at the Occupy Wall St. site in lower Manhattan, a stone's throw from ground zero. For those of us old enough to remember such gatherings in the so-called Sixties ('64-'74), the similarities were striking: spontaneity, solidarity, earnestness,… Continue reading
Oct 05 Poet Donald Hall Reflects on Love, Death and New Hampshire "Love, death and New Hampshire," Donald Hall once said when asked what he writes about. It remains true in the former US Poet Laureate's newly published book of poems, "The Back Chamber."… Continue reading
Oct 05 Poet Donald Hall Reflects on Love, Death and New Hampshire "Love, death and New Hampshire," Donald Hall once said when asked what he writes about. It remains true in the former US Poet Laureate's newly published book of poems, "The Back Chamber."… Continue reading