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Great American Play Contest and marked
an auspicious beginning to Norman's
relationship with ATL.
Passion and Prejudice.
Louisville's Sallie Bingham
dropped a bomb on the city
with this 1989 memoir of
growing up in Louisville's frst
family of media.
King of
the World. David Remnick's
biography of "The Greatest"
foregrounds the important
civil-rights context of
Muhammad Ali's rise to
world heavyweight boxing
champion, with a sophisticated discussion
of his conversion to Islam and his resistance
to the draft.
Crossing the American
Grain. Journalist Grady Clay
was one of Louisville's most
interesting thinkers, and this
collection of micro-essays
broadcast on Morning Edition
is studded with references
to the nooks and crannies of Louisville
neighborhoods, including, in case you were
wondering, "Where Louisville Begins."
Our Napoleon in Rags. Like
William Faulkner's fctional
Yoknapatawpha County, Kirby
Gann's Montreux — with its
decaying Old Towne heart,
its anti-hero Haycraft Keebler,
and his compatriots at the Don
Quixote bar — exquisitely captures 1980s
Louisville.
A DIRTY
bit
According to online dating site
WhatsYourPrice.com, Louisville
ranks seventh among American
cities when it comes to superfcial
relationships. We don't really like
WhatsYourPrice.com because it's
not rich or tan. Bad teeth, too.
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