Twain House benefit to be held Sept. 23
O’Nan, Perrotta, Lopate, and others unite to save Twain’s amazing Hartford house from bankruptcy.
O’Nan, Perrotta, Lopate, and others unite to save Twain’s amazing Hartford house from bankruptcy.
Steve Tolz’s A Fraction of the Whole and Amitav Ghosh’s Sea of Poppies make the Booker shortlist.
Maxine Hong Kingston will receive the National Book Foundation’s 2008 Distinguished Contribution award. Jacket Copy has more.
I’ve enjoyed watching the pundits try to parse Sarah Palin’s Christianity. Their favorite refrain is that you can’t hold the VP candidate responsible for what the Jews for Jesus guy said, since he’s not a member of her church. This is all well and good, except that in my (comparatively vast) experience, most modern-day fundamentalists — especially Pentecostals and members . . .