Author Archives: Steve Weiss
Classrooms and Correctness
David Denby discusses his book Great Books: My Adventures with Homer, Rousseau, Woolf, and Other Indestructible Writers of the Western World. Stanley Fish discusses his new book, Professional Correctness, which is an account of literary studies and political change. 852 … Continue reading
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Tagged Literary Criticism, Literature, Western Culture
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Yahoo!
To some of us, the World Wide Web offers a daily adventure of finding new sites and information. To others, the Web is a welter of words and images. To help make sense of it all, Jerry Yang, one of … Continue reading
Ancient Mosaics
A conversation about Sepphoris in Galilee, an exhibition that recently opened at the N.C. Museum of Art. The exhibition focuses on the archaeological site of Sepphoris, an ancient city in Roman Palestine described by the Jewish historian Josephus Flavius as … Continue reading
The Country I Remember
David Mason reads from his latest collection of poems, a 12-part verse narrative. The Country I Remember recalls the life of one of Mason’s ancestors, Lt. John Mitchell, who was captured in the Civil War battle of Chickamauga in 1863. … Continue reading
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Tagged Art, Civil War, Poetry
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The Cyber Agenda: Politics and the Power of the Internet
Lawrence K. Grossman and James Kinsella discuss and describe how new technologies such as the Internet, online magazines, and interactive cable systems are replacing our shared experience of the front page, nightly news on TV, and conventional magazines. Grossman and Kinsella … Continue reading
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Tagged Art, Computers, Humanities, Internet, Journalism, Television
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Season’s Greetings
Jerry Bledsoe reads from and talks about The Angel Doll, a poignant Christmas story based on his memories of childhood. Lee Smith talks about her new novella, The Christmas Letters. In this story she uses all the Christmas letters she … Continue reading
After Thought
Can computers think? According to cyberspace expert James Bailey, the power of intellectual development is in transition and computers will soon no longer be merely our tools but our intellectual companions. Bailey, was invited to talk about his new book, … Continue reading
The South Explained
John Shelton Reed and Dale Volberg Reed talk about their new book, 1001 Things Everyone Should Know about the South. In this book they combine precision, humor, and Confederate pride to explain America’s most intriguing but misunderstood region to the rest … Continue reading
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The Enemies of Leisure
John Gery discusses his latest books, a collection of poems, The Enemies of Leisure, and a monograph, Nuclear Annihilation and Contemporary American Poetry. Publishers Weekly says that John Gery’s examination of the struggle between leisure and work through layers of … Continue reading
Writing Spaces
In a continuing series of programs produced in collaboration with the Computerworld Smithsonian Awards Program and devoted to the history, culture, and ethics of information technology, Jay David Bolter, a classics scholar and cyberspace expert, is featured. His most recent … Continue reading