Poetry Readings For Children
Selections from works by Ogden Nash, Alfred Tennyson, Rudyard Kipling, Shel Silverstein, Mattie Stepanek, Joseph Bottum, and others were read in front of an invited audience.
1,702 viewsSelections from works by Ogden Nash, Alfred Tennyson, Rudyard Kipling, Shel Silverstein, Mattie Stepanek, Joseph Bottum, and others were read in front of an invited audience.
1,702 viewsWeekly Standard Books & Arts Editor J. Bottum talked about his favorite books being published this fall: Lou Cannon, Ronald Reagan: A Life in Politics; Irwin Stelzer (ed.), The Neocon Reader…
127 viewsParticipants talked about a report issued by the President’s Council on Bioethics. Among the topics they addressed were the ethics of human cloning, uses of cloning for biomedical research, …
172 viewsProfessor Lombardo and other panelists discussed his latest translation of Homer’s Odyssey and talked about the enduring importance of the work. During the course of the discussion Mr. Lomba…
2,885 viewsTelephone lines were open for audience comments on the favorite non-fiction book or author. Mr. Bottum talked via telephone about headline news stories.
113 viewsPanel members discussed author Saul Bellow’s novel Ravelstein, a fictionalized account of the author’s friendship with professor of political philosophy Allan Bloom, best-selling author of T…
1,975 viewsIn the newspaper roundtable, Mr. Rosen and Mr. Bottum talked about current news stories of interest to them and took audience calls, faxes and electronic mail.
63 viewsThree book critics talked about books which they thought would be popular this Spring. Their selections primarily focused on public policy, politics and history. They also took audience call…
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