Bronx high school basketball coach uses Melville to inspire his players
Sunday’s New York Times includes a long, very good story by Michael Powell about Marc Skelton, the basketball coach at Fannie Lou Hamer Freedom High School in the Bronx. Skelton, as… Read more »
Southbank Centre to stage 4-day reading of Moby-Dick
The Southbank Centre has revealed its Autumn Literature Festival line-up and the centrepiece will be a four-day live reading of Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick. Taking place over four evenings, the live… Read more »
Little Free Libraries robbed, philosophical questions raised
How can one steal what cannot be stolen? As we do in all matters of the seemingly profound and pseudo-intellectual, we look to Nebraska, where several Lincoln-area Little Free Libraries… Read more »
Disney to remake The Sword in the Stone as a live action movie
Fans of Arthurian legend, rejoice: a live-action adaptation of The Sword in the Stone is coming from Disney, and from a writer who’s worked extensively in the medieval/fantasy genre. Borys… Read more »
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