July 27th, 2007
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| Photo by Glynn Wilson |
| The Southside Gallery in Oxford, Mississippi was the scene Thursday night for award-winning photographer David Rae Morris’s show “Willie and Katrina” about two emotional mine fields in his life, the death of his father Willie Morris, the writer, and the devastation of his home city, New Orleans. That’s photographer Dave Stueber on the bench with his dog Dupre. We’ll have more to say about this later after a catfish lunch and a tour of William Faulkner’s house and grave site. We’ve had a bit of a time finding free wireless Internet access in this largely rural area of Northeast Mississippi, but finally got on this morning at the University of Mississippi library after camping at the Puskus Lake Recreation Area last night. |
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May 8th, 2007
Writers Rick Bragg and Larry L. King, along with Mayor Richard Howorth of Oxford, pay tribute to the late Mississippi author Willie Morris in a Mississippi Public Broadcasting-TV production airing at 8 p.m. Thursday, May 10.
“Remembering Willie Morris,” an episode of Writers, features reminisces about the best-selling author - a native of Yazoo City and the youngest editor ever of Harper’s magazine. Among his works is North Toward Home, a memoir and best-seller. Morris died in Jackson in 1999.
For details on Mississippi Public Broadcasing programming, go to MPBonline.org
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July 29th, 2006
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| PBS |
| Margaret Atwood |
“If a god showed up every time you put a quarter in the prayer slot it wouldn’t be God, it would be a puppet that you could control by doing that…that would make the deity subservient to you. So it wouldn’t be a deity would it?”
- Margaret Atwood
Do you think a totalitarian theocracy siezing total power in the U.S. and the world is improbable or impossible?
Think again.
Margaret Atwood retells the story of Penelope and Odysseus in her latest novel The Penelopaid.
Read an excerpt and watch the full interview with Bill Moyers on PBS.
Now this is educational TV.
More at PBS.ORG
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May 14th, 2006
All my friends and colleagues think I’m crazy for talking about the coming of World War III, the end of the American empire and the strange, mysterious relationship between George W. Bush and Osama bin Laden that is really behind the attacks on New York and Washington on 9/11. So don’t believe me. Maybe you will believe historian and author Gore Vidal.
Just take a look at the blurb promoting his appearance on C-SPAN’S Book TV:
In Mr. Vidal’s latest book, Dreaming War: Blood for Oil and the Cheney-Bush Junta, he argues that it large corporations, America’s imperialist policies, and the Bush administration are the catalysts behind America’s war on terror. In the book, the author questions how much of a surprise the attacks of September 11, 2001 were to the Bush administration and explores the possibility of a relationship that Osama bin Laden had with George W. Bush while Bush was involved with Texas oil. The program took place at the New York Society for Ethical Culture and was moderated by WNYC radio host Leonard Lopate.
C-SPAN ran another interview with him last night. Check it out on the replay…
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