February 26, 2016, Filed Under: FilmHattie McDaniel’s landmark Academy Awards win The 12th Academy Awards ceremony was held on February 29, 1940, at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, with Bob Hope hosting. Gone With The Wind was nominated for 13 awards and won for
February 24, 2016, Filed Under: Authors, CatalogingDear Guy: Letters in the Guy Davenport collection Here’s the plot of a story a writer told me he had joked about writing with Guy Davenport: For about two days in the 1970s, Queen Elizabeth, the Dalai Lama, and Thomas Merton were within twelve miles of one another in central Kentucky, about a mile from Lincoln’s birthplace. Merton… read more
February 23, 2016, Filed Under: AuthorsCaroling Dusk, An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets This is the last of a three-part series of posts highlighting the influence and work of Countée Cullen, a poet and editor during the Harlem Renaissance. Cullen used the special issue of Palms as a springboard for a book-length anthology. Caroling Dusk, An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, was… read more
