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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Apr 14, 2013
Page
26
A reader responses column features comments by students and staff. Seventh grader Christopher Smith praises Sara Paretsky’s Black List as a detective puzzle. Aaron Brumley, library staff, enjoyed Mary Roach’s Packing for Mars for its entertaining science writing.
Community poetry event invites area writers to submit verses via email with the subject Poet's Showcase. Include hometown and contact information to be considered for display.
The July 1975 Kutztown hotel room listening session for Bruce Springsteen’s Born to Run nearly ended the project. Manager Mike Appel and guitarist Steven Van Zandt witnessed Springsteen fling the acetate into a hotel pool after a tense reaction, prompting a New York drive to scrap the record before Columbia’s Bruce Lundvall urged progress. Carlin’s biography notes the episode helped shape the album’s completion and release one month later.
The weekly best-seller roundup lists ten titles across two lists. Debbie Macomber and Sheryl Sandberg anchor the top spots with Life After Life, Gone Girl, and Alex Cross Run among the leaders. The compilation tracks authors, publishers, and prices for April 7.
New York Brooklyn based poet Chris Hosea wins the Walt Whitman Award for a debut collection Put Your Hands In published by Louisiana State University Press. The prize, valued at 5000 dollars, was chosen by renowned poet John Ashbery.
The Morgan Library and Museum in New York announced it will receive 28 letters from J D Salinger to his spiritual mentor Swami Nikhilananda founder of the Ramakrishna Vivekananda Center. Salinger died in 2010 at age 91 and was deeply influenced by Eastern religion and philosophy.
In the Kansas Statehouse hallways a mural of a fierce, universal figure provokes mixed feelings among Kansans. Some see a symbol of freedom and provocation, while others view bloodied imagery and apocalyptic weather as stain upon the state. Questions linger about conscience and civic action.
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