[3] Everyday life can be loud – especially for young mothers raising kids in urban Kansas City. But on a recent Tuesday afternoon, a side room in the Lucile H. Bluford Branch [4] of the Kansas City Public Library was a haven of quiet industry as a handful of women studied for the next phase in their lives.
[6] Attention shoppers! It’s taken decades of research and a financial slap upside the head, but the CEOs of retail have finally seen what’s been in front of their faces all along: Women are driving the economy. And it took a man to point out that not-so-surprising-to-the-rest-of-us fact.
[8] The 36,000 plots in Elmwood Cemetery at Truman Road and Van Brunt Boulevard compose a sweeping patchwork of history, telling the story of Kansas City from its frontier beginnings, to its role in the border conflicts of the Civil War and rise in the railroad era, to the sprawling city we know today.
[10] The Iliad [11] may be the oldest narrative work in the Western canon. Homer’s epic focuses on an argument between Achilles [12], the greatest Greek warrior at Troy, and Agamemnon [13], the commander of the Greek forces, and the disastrous results of that argument.
[15] In Robert Stone’s newest collection of short stories, Fun With Problems [16], the characters have just that. They’re everyday people from all walks of life, yet all are addicts with something broken about them. Stone’s characters are slightly despicable but at the same time familiar enough to ease the reader into their world.
Links:
[1] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/KC+Unbound/feed
[2] http://drupal.org/node/11816
[3] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/kc-unbound/upper-rooms-family-literacy-program-gives-moms-and-kids-upper-hand
[4] http://www.kclibrary.org/bluford
[5] http://www.kclibrary.org/comment/reply/10889#comment-form
[6] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/kc-unbound/book-review-global-market-gets-female-friendly
[7] http://www.kclibrary.org/comment/reply/10873#comment-form
[8] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/kc-unbound/elmwood-cemetery-window-kansas-citys-past
[9] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/kc-unbound/elmwood-cemetery-window-kansas-citys-past#comments
[10] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/kc-unbound/classics-reviewed-iliad
[11] http://classics.mit.edu/Homer/iliad.html
[12] http://www.pantheon.org/articles/a/achilles.html
[13] http://www.pantheon.org/articles/a/agamemnon.html
[14] http://www.kclibrary.org/comment/reply/10793#comment-form
[15] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/kc-unbound/short-cuts-robert-stones-latest-stories
[16] http://kcaqua.kclibrary.org/?q=author:%22Robert+Stone%22+title:%22Fun+With+Problems%22
[17] http://www.kclibrary.org/comment/reply/10796#comment-form
[18] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/kc-unbound/short-cuts-robert-stones-latest-stories#attachments
[19] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/113
[20] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/113?page=105
[21] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/113?page=102
[22] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/113?page=103
[23] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/113?page=104
[24] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/113?page=107
[25] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/113?page=108
[26] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/113?page=109
[27] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/113?page=110
[28] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/113?page=112
