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Europe 1700-1914 (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
Most black slaves in England had been brought back by sea captains. Their status was legally uncertain. Some had been legally emancipated. Francis Barber had been freed by his previous owner, Colonel Bathurst; similarly a black valet in the service of Sir Joshua Reynolds. But slaves were often put up for public sale in Bristol and Liverpool. Granville Sharp , then a junior clerk in the Ordinance Office...
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Dewey's Treehouse (Free subscription) | 10/08/2009
Okay...what did our class read in high school? Somehow we skipped both Lord of the Flies and Catcher in the Rye (the Apprentice wasn't so lucky). We did read a lot of short stories and poems, several Shakespeare and Shaw plays, A Man For All Seasons , Death of a Salesman , and a bunch of novels: To Kill a Mockingbird Huckleberry Finn Brave New World Heart of Darkness The Sun Also Rises The Pearl ,...
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Cybergrass (Free subscription) | 08/05/2009
Nashville, TN -- Respected recording artist, songwriter and musician extraordinaire Steve Wariner will visit the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum on Saturday, August 29, for a performance and interview. Wariner will discuss and perform selections from his upcoming release, Steve Wariner, c.g.p.: My Tribute to Chet Atkins. The disc includes selected interpretations of Atkins' work, interspersed...
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NPT Media Update (Free subscription) | 07/13/2009
We’ve had some great musicians join us in Studio B over the years during our special membership drive programming. Last year, Cowboy Jack Clement joined us during the airing of Shakespeare Was a Big George Jones Fan: Cowboy Jack Clement’s Home Movies. A couple of weeks ago, it was mandolin player extraordinaire Sam Bush [...]
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Soho the Dog (Free subscription) | 06/05/2009
My lovely wife picked up a degree from Harvard today—good Lord, I can't possibly deserve a woman this smart—so we took in the entirety of Harvard commencement, which is kind of like the academic version of a live Ring cycle: long, sometimes fascinating, sometimes boring, but worth experiencing at least once in your life. (I mean, one of the comic highlights—no kidding—was an...
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NPT Media Update (Free subscription) | 05/29/2009
How’s this for synergy? Legendary guitarist and producer Chet Atkins bestowed the title of Certified Guitar Player (C.G.P.) on only four individuals: Tommy Emmanuel, John Knowles, Jerry Reed and Steve Wariner. An Australian “Entertainer of the Year” and two-time Grammy nominee, Emmanuel is something to behold. He’s an amazing guitar player, dazzling performer and a [...]
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Anchorage Daily News (Free subscription) | 04/17/2009
John Knowles won the boys shot put and discus, and Rachel Hoffman took the girls 100- and 300-meter hurdles to highlight Wasilla's team victories in the Palmer Chaos meet.
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Reading matters (Free subscription) | 12/26/2008
Fiction - paperback; Bantam USA; 208 pages; 1975. John Knowles' A Separate Peace is well known as a set text in the USA, but I first heard of it only a matter of weeks ago when I read an intriguing review by Trevor Barrett on The Mookse and the Gripes blog. I immediately scoured the internet for a cheap copy and managed to find one listed on BookMooch, which was soon whizzing its way across the Atlantic.The...
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My Own Private Calenture (Free subscription) | 12/19/2008
1. The Bonesetter's Daughter by Amy Tan 2. Lyra's Oxford by Philip Pullman 3. Moon Tiger by Penelope Lively 4. A Separate Peace by John Knowles 5. A Day, A Night, Summer (Stories) by Christine Schutt 6. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway 7. Sky of Stone by Homer Hickam 8. Fire Watch (Stories) by Connie Willis 9. A New Song by Jan Karon 10. Letters to Penthouse XXVI (Destinationa S-E-X) by The
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Washington Post (Free subscription) | 12/10/2008
A BLESSED CHILD By Linn Ullmann Translated from the Norwegian by Sarah Death Knopf. 307 pp. $24.95 Two staples of high school reading -- John Knowles's "A Separate Peace" and William Golding's "Lord of the Flies" -- have generated decades of literary discourse on the subject of boys being bad. We...
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ASA Citation (Free subscription) | 12/08/2008
A Separate Peace is one of the best-known novels of John Knowles. In fact, it is his coming-of-age novel. After reading this novel, students often get a task to write A Separate Peace essay. If this is your case, read this article, since here you will find out how to create a worthwhile essay on A [...]
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Britannica Blog (Free subscription) | 10/03/2007
The American Library Association has designated September 20--October 6 as this year's Banned Books Week. It's a time to read and talk about books of all kinds, from Of Mice and Men to Reading Lolita in Tehran to Huckleberry Finn to, yes, And Tango Makes Three . . . . And the U.S. Constitution, too.
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A Work in Progress (Free subscription) | 08/24/2007
Recently I read a very enjoyable novel with an academic setting. It's been a while since I've read a book like that, and it reminded me how much I like books that touch on academia in some way. I thought...
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