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With special guest...
Lynnell Edwards
The poet and professor (and contributor to this magazine) puts "a literary
lens on Louisville to see how great
writers have experienced us and how
we have experienced the city."
(In chronological order of publication)
The Great Gatsby. F. Scott
Fitzgerald. The Seelbach
(Muhlbach in Gatsby).
The Seven
Storey
Mountain.
Thomas MertonÕs epiphany
at the corner of Walnut (now
Muhammad Ali Boulevard)
and Fourth streets, where he
perceived the people around him Òshining
like the sun,Ó marks Louisville forever as a
site of spiritual pilgrimage.
ÒThe Kentucky Derby Is
Decadent and DepravedÓ
(reprinted in The Great Shark
Hunt). The title of Hunter S.
ThompsonÕs essay in Scanlan's
Monthly on the 1970 Kentucky
Derby says it all. To be read as
a ritual penance the Sunday after Derby.
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Louisville native Marsha
Norman won the Pulitzer Prize
for her play 'Night, Mother,
but she is perhaps known
equally well for her frst play,
Getting Out, the story of a
young woman newly released
from prison. Set in a dingy
apartment in downtown Louisville, the play
was the co-winner of Actors TheatreÕs 1977
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SoFo shuffe
Can South Fourth come back?
Streetscape, new retail, but PLEASE
No comedy clubs.
