On the Rails and On the Ropes in Oklahoma
This spring sees the publication of On the Ropes, a long-awaited sequel to James Vance’s earlier graphic novel, Kings in Disguise, which followed the… Read More »On the Rails and On the Ropes in Oklahoma
This spring sees the publication of On the Ropes, a long-awaited sequel to James Vance’s earlier graphic novel, Kings in Disguise, which followed the… Read More »On the Rails and On the Ropes in Oklahoma
The NY Times editorial about Oklahoma finally embracing its rambling son, Woody Guthrie, with a study center for his archives didn’t mention his fellow exiled… Read More »Bound for Tulsa
Last month I joined a group at the FDR Memorial Library in Hyde Park, NY, which hosted a discussion of the New Deal’s Enduring Legacy,… Read More »New Deal Arts After the Election
Here we mark the release of a new DVD box set of Humphrey Bogart films, including his memorable angry man in Black Legion (watch a… Read More »Un-American, the Label
Louis L’Amour, one of the bestselling writers of Westerns in history, started out writing for the WPA guide to Oklahoma under the direction of noir… Read More »A Man Named L’Amour
With Ossining, New York as the locale of Don Draper’s broken home in the TV series Mad Men, notes the New York Times, “If ‘Mad… Read More »Decoding Mad Men with Cheever
The recent Texas Book Festival featured, once again, authors discussing their books in the halls of the state capitol building, from literary biography in the… Read More »Talking Books in the Texas Legislature
This post honors the range of voices that emerged from the Writers’ Project. Marking crime novelist Jim Thompson’s 103rd birthday a few weeks ago, my… Read More »Many Voices Sounding from the 1930s