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BY BIANCA SPRIGGSIn the midst of all the fanfare surrounding WEG, I daresay that this is the perfect opportunity to remind folks that for many, the Bluegrass isn't

 “I wish that you — you personally and every creative individual and organization you know — will find a way to directly engage with a public

Presenters at this year's Kentucky Women Writers conference include Diane Ackerman, Jennifer Chang, Sue Halpern, C.E. Morgan, Simone Muench, Heather Sellers, Patricia Smith, Mary Ann Taylor-Hall, Valerie Wilson-Wesley.The

"Everybody's got an eye for something. The only difference is that I carry around a notebook in my front pocket."--David Sedaris, interview with Missouri Review David Sedaris

Kentucky's new statewide literacy project -- Isaac Murphy: Everybody Reads -- will coincide with the 2010 World Equestrian Games. Kentucky author and UK professor Frank X Walker has

[Thanks to KY political blog Barefoot & Progressive for the tip.] UK writing professor and Lexington author Erik Reece contributes a City Portrait of Lexington in the August/September issue

Author Silas House posted today that the term "cosmic possum," coined by his friend Jane Hicks, has landed in the Urban Dictionary. It's defined as: "A person whose

Veteran newsman David Dick has died at the age of 80, at his Bourbon County home.  His most famous reporting came covering the Jonestown Massacre as a CBS

NPR's Fresh Air posted this excerpt from David Sedaris, 'When You Are Engulfed in Flames' today, in honor of Bastille Day. (Sedaris lives part-time in France.)Re-posting it here,