NY Daily News (Free subscription) | 04/26/2008
Nestled in the heart of central New York's picturesque Mohawk Valley - made famous in the Leatherstocking tales of James Fenimore Cooper - the 1,200-acre Turning Stone resort in Verona is the largest golf, spa and entertainment complex in the Northeast.
Nature.com Blogs (Free subscription) | 04/25/2008
The prairie was once one of the iconic ecosystems of North America. An undulating expanse of grasses, grazing bison and periodic cleansing fire stretching across hundreds of miles, it was called by “the inland sea” by James Fenimore Cooper. The...
New York Times (Free subscription) | 04/12/2008
Homesickness has its benefits. Lauren Groff’s first novel, “The Monsters of Templeton,” had its origin during a winter when she found herself far from her hometown, Cooperstown, N.Y. To combat her yearning for familiar surroundings, Groff — whose stories have appeared in The Atlantic and Ploughshares as well as a “Best American Short Stories” anthology — began reading about the town’s history...
The Unstuck Diaries of John Coombes (Free subscription) | 04/09/2008
In 1826 James Fenimore Cooper called the main character in his novel The Last of the Mohicans, Natty Bumppo. In 1992 the producers of the film clearly decided it would be slightly less ridiculous to call him Nathaniel Poe. The...
Big A little a (Free subscription) | 03/25/2008
... multi-layered The Monsters of Templeton. Groff opens her wonderful first novel with a quote from James Fenimore Cooper: "An interesting fiction...however paradoxical the assertion may appear...addresses our love of truth--not the mere love of facts expressed by true names and dates, but the love of that higher truth, the truth of nature and of principles, which is a primitive...
New York Times (Free subscription) | 03/14/2008
... for admission, no one appearing to think of aught but the great man within,” Lafayette’s friend, James Fenimore Cooper, wrote in a memoir about his own years in . Five years ago, the husband-and-wife team of Jean-François Chuet and Yang Lining transformed a series of drawing rooms in the 18th-century town house into an unlikely combination for : a restaurant and gallery. They...
Choice Cuts (Free subscription) | 03/06/2008
( link ) "Institutions purely democratic must, sooner, or later,destroy liberty or civilization or both."-- Thomas Babington Macaulay(1800-1859) [Lord Macaulay] 1st Baron Macaulay, British historianSource: Letter to H.S. Randall, May 23, 1857 "The tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity."-- James Fenimore Cooper(1789-1851) American NovelistSource: The American...
the hyperlinkopotamus @ discarded l (Free subscription) | 03/01/2008
... accounts from generations of Templetonians—as well as characters borrowed from the works of James Fenimore Cooper, who named an upstate New York town Templeton in The Pioneers—Groff paints a rich picture of Willie's current predicaments and those of her ancestors. Readers will delight in Willie's sharp wit and Groff's creation of an entire world, complete with a lake monster...
The Gamesblog (Free subscription) | 02/25/2008
Reviews are the inevitable epiphenomenon of our consumer society, writing to help consumers navigate the innumerable options available to them. They can be well or poorly done, but they are nothing more than ephemera. I'm sure the newspapers of early 19th century America ran reviews of the novels of James Fenimore Cooper; they are utterly forgotten, and should be, because by nature...
The Big Blowdown (Free subscription) | 02/23/2008
... "For Michael Mann's The Last of the Mohicans (1992), the actor was able to prepare for the role of James Fenimore Cooper's 18th-century hero Hawkeye by living off the land for six months, learning how to hunt, fish and skin animals." So, nutter, but one of ours. Good luck tomorrow night Daniel ... err, I'm sure you do actually read this blog? * The Pogues (and also the name...
Hulver's site (Free subscription) | 02/18/2008
... telling about their material origins, manufactured production, commercial travels, and so forth. James Fenimore Cooper diligently revived the genre with his in 1843, in which the hankie in question tells the involved story of his growth as a flax plant, harvesting, weaving, sale, attendance at fashionable balls, resale, and so on."There it is folks, your new challenge. Writers...
CRITICAL MASS (Free subscription) | 02/18/2008
Canio's Books in Sag Harbor, the former whaling village on the East End of Long Island, has a wall of poetry books,readings every week, and lots of "local authors" on the shelves, beginning with James Fenimore Cooper, Herman Melville, John Steinbeck, Kurt Vonnegut,Jean Stafford, and E.L. Doctorow. Canio's was chockablock Saturday night for the NBCC Good Reads discussion. Canio's...
International Herald Tribune (Free subscription) | 02/18/2008
... answer.Templeton is, first of all, a major character for Groff. It's also another name for Cooperstown, New York, where she was born. Cooperstown was first given this pseudonym by its most famous resident, the novelist James Fenimore Cooper, who also gave the name Marmaduke Temple to his own father, Judge William Cooper, the town's founder.Long after Judge...
Christian Science Monitor (Free subscription) | 02/11/2008
A lively debut novel borrows from James Fenimore Cooper and the Loch Ness monster to create myths of its own.
Channel 4 (Free subscription) | 02/07/2008
In a 20-year directing career, Michael Mann has only been responsible for seven feature films. But what his output lacks in quantity, it makes up for in quality. After Manhunter and his TV movie prototype for Heat, 'L.A. Takedown', he turned his hand to this grand version of James Fenimore Cooper's novel of colonial life and strife in 1757 America (first published in 1826). Neither...
