The Literary Life

Megan Henderson and James Mackenzie bring an inspiring highland energy and cultural grounding as well as diverse musicianship on fiddle, vocals, highland pipes and wooden flute. James Lindsay is a long time band member though Bann is his debut on a Breabach recording.  

What would it be like to get a love letter from one of America’s greatest writers? Although Hemingway was a diligent correspondent, with thousands of his letters in libraries and private collections around the world, few of his letters to the women in his life have survived. But we can get a glimpse of the ardor in his early relationship in The Letters of Ernest Hemingway, Volume 1: 1907-1922. via www.cambridgeblog.org  

It’s like, she’s a comedienne.” One topic that’s no joke to the entertainer, who’s producing a film based on one of the books by her famous grandfather, Ernest Hemingway, is health. The bubbly blond appeared at the Cannon House Office Building ...  

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It is a remarkable fact that the National Museum of Health and Medicine (NMHM) holds thousands of anatomical specimens from soldiers injured during the American Civil War. More remarkable is that four of these specimens originate from soldiers who the poet and essayist Walt Whitman nursed in the wartime hospitals of Washington, D.C. A study published in the January 2012 issue of the Museum History Journal unites these remains with Whitman’s...  

The Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre's elegant production of The Fighting Days comes on the heels of ShawFest, the company's salute to playwright George Bernard Shaw. Much like Shaw in his time, Canadian playwright Wendy Lill is a social reformer who ...  

Author and The Rachel Maddow Show host Rachel Maddow has won the John Steinbeck Award. Previous recipients included Joan Baez, Bruce Springsteen, Arthur Miller, Studs Terkel and Garrison Keillor. Maddow is the third woman to receive the prestigious award and the first recipient under the age of 40. Thomas Steinbeck, son of the great John Steinbeck, had this statement in the release: “My father would have adored Rachel Maddow … Listening to...