‘Featured Author’ Category
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David Thomson´s Movie Meditations
0December 5, 2008 by Reader's Connection
I love David Thomson’s book, The New Biographical Dictionary of Film, despite the fact that I disagree with 75% of his opinions. I think he loves director Howard Hawks way…
Category Featured Author | Tags: David Thomson, Nicole Kidman
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Featured Author: Richard Price
2November 14, 2008 by Reader's Connection
Why does Richard Price deserve to be a featured author? 1) He doesn’t have a website. Or if he has one, Google can’t find it, and that in itself is…
Category Featured Author | Tags: Lush Life, Richard Price
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Booth Tarkington (and the New Mural) in the Indianapolis Room
1October 27, 2008 by Reader's Connection
We’re excited about Tom Torluemke’s mural–newly installed in the Indianapolis Special Collections Room at Central Library–which was inspired in part by Booth Tarkington’s novel, The Magnificent Ambersons. Winner of two…
Category Announcement, Featured Author | Tags: Indianapolis Special Collections Room, Magnificent Ambersons, Tarkington, Torluemke
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Featured Author: Ursula K. Le Guin . . . and, um, Virgil
0September 20, 2008 by Reader's Connection
Ursula K. Le Guin has been publishing novels, short stories, poems and essays for forty years. She has won Hugo and Nebula and Newbery awards, among others; and the variety…
Category Book Review, Featured Author | Tags: