It seems the entire blogosphere is talking about the Virginia Tech massacre tragedy. I don’t really know what to say about it, except that it was devastating news. In light of not knowing what to say, I’d just like to share poet/professor Nikki Giovanni’s tribute*: Nikki Giovanni’s Virginia Tech Convocation ConclusionWe are Virginia Tech. We… Continue Reading
Tolkien novel published 34 years after his death LONDON (Reuters) – More than 30 years after his death, a “new” book by J.R.R. Tolkien goes on sale on Tuesday which may well be the author’s last complete work to be published posthumously. Tolkien’s son and literary executor Christopher, now in his eighties, constructed “The Children… Continue Reading
From the New York Times: Kurt Vonnegut, whose dark comic talent and urgent moral vision in novels like “Slaughterhouse-Five,” “Cat’s Cradle” and “God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater” caught the temper of his times and the imagination of a generation, died Wednesday night in Manhattan. He was 84 and had homes in Manhattan and in Sagaponack… Continue Reading