September 28, 2009 at 4:39 pm by Debbie Michaud
Garrison Keillor appears tonight at Agnes Scott’s Presser Hall. The event’s free, but no tickets have been handed out ahead of time. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. and tickets will be given away then until all the seats are taken. The event starts at 7:30 p.m. From the Georgia Center for the Book:
America’s favorite storyteller and for 35 years host of NPR’s “Prairie Home Companion,” makes his first visit to the Center for the Book! He’ll be talking about his eagerly anticipated new novel, Pilgrims: A Wobegon Novel, a delightful chronicle of small-town Midwesterners we know and love, and a book critics are already calling “a modern day Canterbury Tales.” Keillor has written more than a dozen books including Lake Wobegon Days, Leaving Home, Pontoon and Homegrown Democrat. Perhaps this country’s best-known humorist, he also is heard regularly with “The Writers Almanac” on many NPR stations.
(Photo courtesy Georgia Center for the Book)
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May 4, 2009 at 8:00 am by Amber Robinson
1) 500 Songs for Kids continues at Smith’s Olde Bar.
2) NPR contributor Lauretta Hannon discusses her book, The Cracker Queen, at Decatur Library.
3) The Bookhouse Pub hosts Localvore Monday.
Continue reading “5 things to do: Monday”
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Tags: 5 things to do today, 500 Songs for Kids, Atlanta Braves, Bookhouse Pub, Lauretta Hannon, Localvore Monday, Mudfire Gallery, New York Mets, NPR, Potters of the Roan, smith's olde bar.
April 22, 2009 at 10:39 am by Jeremy Abernathy
NPR ran an extremely well-timed story on critics and the struggling print industry last week. At the beginning of the broadcast, director of the National Arts Journalism Program Doug McClennan defended the status of full-time professional critics:
The critic defines the territory, walks the perimeter of that territory and comes back and tells you, ‘OK … here’s the interesting stuff I found.’
Meanwhile, the Wall Street Journal reported yesterday that in the United States there are now “as many people making their living as bloggers as there are lawyers,” i.e., there are more bloggers than firefighters.
As Dylan once quipped,“You don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.” … Or do we?
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Tags: Bob Dylan, National Arts Journalism Progam, newspaper deathwatch, NPR, on blogging, the role of critics, Wall Street Journal.
