Kane Webb
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Book dishes up insights on 10 state governorships
posted: 10/31/2010 5:19 a.m. Discuss
Good morning, class. Books off your desks. Time for a pop quiz. Stop groaning. If you did your reading, it’ll be easy. Ready? Here goes.
Meet the Mallets
posted: 09/12/2010 6 a.m. Comments 2
It’s less than a month before the Arkansas Razorbacks open the football season against something called Tennessee Tech, and the kitchen table in Jim and Debbie Mallett’s home here in Texarkana is crowded with preseason magazines. They all seem to share the same theme, or at least the same cover: a picture of Jim and Debbie’s only son, Razorback quarterback Ryan Mallett.
Larry Paul Arnn
posted: 04/18/2010 6:28 a.m. Discuss
What if you created a college that kept things, first things, simple — with an emphasis on the liberal arts of history, literature, languages, philosophy, economics, all taught using the Socratic method?
Best Books ’09 Chapter Two
posted: 01/03/2010 3:08 a.m. Comment 1
The Road by Cormac McCarthy. It was the last book he read. I brought my paperback copy to the hospital, and he read it in a night.
Best Books ’09
posted: 12/20/2009 4:21 a.m. Discuss
Part 1 of 2 Have you ever seen anyone fall in love with a book? I mean actually seen it—as if you’re watching a movie and the two main destined-foreach-other characters finally connect ?
Worst Books '09
posted: 07/19/2009 4:24 a.m. Discuss
Bad books? I love 'em. Because the worst books produce the best reviews. Think about it: Can you remember a great book review about a great book? Neither can I. But let a talented reviewer get hold of some hardbound atrocity that has somehow oozed up from the literary tar pits and you're in for a treat.
COLUMNISTS Entirely personal
posted: 06/28/2009 2:24 a.m. Discuss
This is the sixth time I've tried to start this column. An editor I once knew would tell me that means I have nothing to say. Not this time. This time, I have too much to say.
In defense of sportswriting
posted: 05/17/2009 2:38 a.m. Discuss
On the back page of today's Perspective section, David Kinkade does a fine job of identifying a genre of commentary that's suddenly filling news pages everywhere: The Aging Journalist's Lament for Newspapers.
Ballpark blues
posted: 05/10/2009 5:54 a.m.
The television interview was set for the new Arkansas Studies Institute, that hybrid-actually, more like a tri-brid-structure at the corner of Clinton Avenue and Rock Street in Little Rock's hybrid River Market district. (Part beer halls, part libraries.)
Coffee with Bud
posted: 05/10/2009 5:44 a.m.
The phones here at the office have caller i.d., so when mine rang Tuesday afternoon, I saw the name "Bud Cummins."
