[3] Joseph Heller was lying in bed in his four-room apartment on the West Side of Manhattan, New York, when suddenly it came to him: It was love at first sight. The first time he saw the chaplain, Someone fell madly in love with him.
[5] We all know Emma Lazarus [6] for giving voice to the Statue of Liberty through her sonnet "The New Colossus [7]" (Give me your tired, your poor). But as Esther Schor shows in her enthralling biography of Lazarus, she was a feminist, a Zionist and an internationally famous Jewish-American writer – before those categories even existed.
[9] One of the greatest artistic collaborations in Missouri history is on display right now at the Central Library. Our exhibit Mark Twain and Tom Benton: Pictures, Prose, and Song [10] features illustrations Benton made for three limited edition Twain novels, along with lithographs by Benton, a record album, first edition Twain books, and portraits of both men.
[12] In his new book, Genius of Place, biographer Justin Martin says that Frederick Law Olmsted “may well be the most important American historical figure that the average person knows least about.”
[14] What do you call one part Southern Comfort, three parts cranberry juice, and a squeeze of lime shaken and served up in a martini glass? Answer: a bibulous good time for a bibliophile like yourself at the Kansas City Public Library this Tuesday night.
Links:
[1] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/KC%20Unbound/feed
[2] http://drupal.org/node/11816
[3] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/kc-unbound/s-some-catch-joseph-heller-remembered-library
[4] http://www.kclibrary.org/comment/reply/14847#comment-form
[5] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/kc-unbound/behind-exhibit-emma-lazarus-voice-liberty-voice-conscience-video-event
[6] http://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/lazarus-emma
[7] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_Colossus
[8] http://www.kclibrary.org/comment/reply/14477#comment-form
[9] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/kc-unbound/behind-exhibit-mark-twain-and-tom-benton-video
[10] http://www.kclibrary.org/event/mark-twain-and-tom-benton-pictures-prose-and-song
[11] http://www.kclibrary.org/comment/reply/14463#comment-form
[12] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/kc-unbound/guns-and-green-spaces-frederick-law-olmsteds-impact-kansas-city
[13] http://www.kclibrary.org/comment/reply/14324#comment-form
[14] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/kc-unbound/southern-living-library
[15] http://www.kclibrary.org/comment/reply/14281#comment-form
[16] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/10499
[17] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/10499?page=7
[18] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/10499?page=4
[19] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/10499?page=5
[20] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/10499?page=6
[21] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/10499?page=9
[22] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/10499?page=10
[23] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/10499?page=11
[24] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/10499?page=12
[25] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/10499?page=15
