Showing posts with label writing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label writing. Show all posts
Friday, September 25, 2020

ON THE AVENUES: Magic and loss.

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For one who is accustomed to recording his thoughts on paper, because he has always understood in his particular case that writing is the ve...
Wednesday, November 13, 2019

Kurt Vonnegut: "There is no shortage of wonderful writers. What we lack is a dependable mass of readers."

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Maybe first I should learn how to type. Meanwhile, Kurt Vonnegut is my favorite Hoosier -- Vonnegut and maybe Hoagy Carmichael. Dark o...
Wednesday, July 10, 2019

Read my food and dining (and drinking) news items at Food & Dining Magazine.

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It has been something like 15 years since I started writing beer columns for Food & Dining Magazine , and since 2016 I've been br...
Sunday, April 07, 2019

A pundit's life of living publicly, or wow, it's been a while since a nice, healthy Sunday rant.

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Roughly once a year I feel compelled to issue this explanation of a pundit's life as lived in public view, so here goes. I'm fai...
Thursday, November 19, 2015

ON THE AVENUES: Beer, farthings and that little-known third category.

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ON THE AVENUES: Beer, farthings and that little-known third category. A weekly web column by Roger A. Baylor. On being a writer, Ernes...
Sunday, August 31, 2014

Sunday morning coffee reading: "Why Orwell was a literary mediocrity."

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The author does not begrudge Orwell's talents. Rather, he feels "less well-disposed to those mediocrities who slavishly worship at ...
Sunday, February 10, 2013

The Economist on Richard III.

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Before my job at the long defunct UMI Data Courier back in '88, I didn't know what The Economist was. It still isn't entirely cl...
Tuesday, July 31, 2012

Novelists and non-fiction: Frank Bill's House of Grit.

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Late last year, when we first encountered Frank Bill's name, he was advising readers of Granta to avoid the vicious, meth-laced ganglan...
Thursday, July 26, 2012

Alexander Cockburn.

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As a hick from somewhere close to French Lick, muddling along from regional backwardness to a place approximating planetary citizenship, I f...
Thursday, November 10, 2011

It isn't always my decision.

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The Sherman Minton Bridge was shut down on September 9, and the general election followed on November 8. During that two-month period, NAC ...
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Monday, February 21, 2011

A columnist no longer, for now.

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It was a strange morning. After 111 straight deadlines successfully met, my Tribune column is on hiatus. While the ostensible and stated rea...
Tuesday, December 30, 2008

Open thread: How do we cope with the theory and practice of New Albany?

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Four years and 2,200 posts ago, we made an assertion and asked a question. The assertion remains unchallenged, and the question is unanswere...
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Tuesday, December 16, 2008

Upon closer examination, it's business as usual.

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Let me tell all of you something that's important to me. When I post a blog that is available for viewing by anyone on Planet Earth with...
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Monday, December 08, 2008

New Tribune guest columnist in January.

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Last Friday afternoon I met with Steve Kozarovich, publisher of the New Albany Tribune , and agreed to write a 900-word column on a weekly b...
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Monday, February 18, 2008

Time: What a concept ...

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A reader has asked why there seems to be less “abundant” writing here than there was before. That’s a good question, and I’ll see if I can a...
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