By Mark | October 27, 2013
While they’re not yet completely divested of Ypsilanti, Kelley Weger and Bethany Schultz are well on their way to being former residents of this town we’re all so fond of. What follows is their official exit interview. MARK: What were the circumstances around your first coming to Ypsilanti? KELLY: I came to town for the […]
By Mark | September 6, 2011
As you might have heard, the Republic, Missouri school board voted unanimously a few weeks ago to ban Kurt Vonnegut’s brilliant anti-war novel Slaughterhouse-Five. The vote, according to the Christian Science Monitor, was set in motion when a complaint was filed by Republic resident Wesley Scroggins. Scroggins, whose children are home-schooled, apparently felt strongly enough […]
Posted in Art and Culture, Special Projects | Also tagged banning books, Crown Hill Cemetery, interviews with Mark, Julia Whitehead, Kurt Vonnegut, Missouri, rejection letters, Republic, Rodney Allen, Slaughterhouse Five, Teaching Teachers to Teach Vonnegut, Vonnegut Initiative, Wesley Scroggins |
[Tonight’s open thread is brought to you by the hideous monster known as Laura Ingraham, the brilliant, often detestable, usually drunk, and now apparently dying Christopher Hitchens, and the Kurt Vonnegut Memorial Library.]