A previously unknown short story by Walker Percy, whose first novel, The Moviegoer, won the National Book Award for Fiction in 1962, will be published in the April, 2009 issue of The Hopkins Review, a literary quarterly produced by Johns Hopkins University Press. “‘A Detective Story’ is a breezy tale of William Pinckney, a Mississippi businessman [...]
Archive for March 30th, 2009
“New” Walker Percy Short Story to be Published in “The Hopkins Review”
Posted in Books, Literature, Writers & Writing on March 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Hola Havana: Washington Mulls Lifting Travel Ban to Cuba
Posted in Congress, Economy, Foreign Travel, International Affairs, Obama, Politics, The Americas on March 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
“Roughly a year after Fidel Castro stepped aside and handed much of the responsibility for leading Cuba to his brother Raúl, there is new momentum in Washington for eliminating the ban on most U.S. travel to the island nation and for reexamining the severe limitations on U.S.-Cuban economic exchanges. “At a Capitol Hill news conference [...]
R.I.P. – Helen Levitt (1913-2009)
Posted in Art & Artists, Brooklyn, New York City, Obituaries, Photography on March 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
“Helen Levitt, a major photographer of the 20th century who caught fleeting moments of surpassing lyricism, mystery and quiet drama on the streets of her native New York, died in her sleep at her home in Manhattan on Sunday. She was 95. . . . “Ms. Levitt captured instances of a cinematic and delightfully guileless [...]
