Hardly More Than a Ghost
Ghosting
by Kirby Gann
Brooklyn, New York: Ig Publishing
286 pp.; $15.95
New Volume Spans the Career of Wendell Berry & Reminds Us - First and Foremost, this Author is a Poet.
New Collected Poems by Wendell Berry
Berkeley, California: Counterpoint
391 pp.; $30
When Kentucky was the West
Kentucky Rising: Democracy, Slavery, and Culture from the Early Republic to the Civil War by James A. Ramage and Andrea S. Watkins
Lexington: University Press of Kentucky and The Kentucky Historical Society
445 pp. $40
Unique Collaboration Produces "Charming" Story for Young Readers
Silas House will read from Same Sun Here and sign books at the Clifton Center's Eifler Theatre, 2117 Payne Street. For more information, call 502-896-6950.
Fans of Louisville History Welcome Two Volumes on Crescent Hill History by Local Authors
Meet Crescent Hill Author
The latest Louisville volume of the Images of the America series is Louisville's Crescent Hill, and author John E. Findling will be at Carmichael's Frankfort Avenue store on Sunday, February 12 at 4 p.m. to sign copies of his book. It contains a short history of the area and 126 pages of images and long captions of the Crescent Hill that was and still is.
Is 126 pages not enough? Also out is Samuel W. Thomas's recently reissued local history classic Crescent Hill: Its History and Resurgence (revised with Deborah M. Thomas), a coffee-table book with lots of oral history about the neighborhood and more photographs of its landmarks.
For more information about the Findling event, click here.
The Thomases will discuss their book at the Crescent Hill Library on February 21 at 6 p.m. For reservations, call the Filson Historical Society at 635-5083.
- Katherine Dalton
Literary Review: Pulphead
by John Jeremiah Sullivan Farrar, Straus and Giroux,
Paperback, $16
Louisville Author James Markert
Butler Books recently released a new novel by local author James Markert set in 1929 at Waverley Hill Tuberculosis Sanatorium. Author James Markert originally set out to write a book about the ghosts of abandoned facility, but decided instead to recreate the lives of its residents. "The Requiem Rose" is Markert's third published novel and the winner of a 2011 IPPY award from Independent Publisher. Part of the story's action takes place at the historic Seelbach Hilton Hotel in downtown Louisville. I decided that would be a good place to meet with the author who talks in this interview about his work, inspirations, writing habits and future projects. Watch Video