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In Cold Blood: A True Account of a Multiple Murder and its Consequences by Truman Capote
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On November 15, 1959, in the small town of Holcomb, Kansas, four members of the …
The Glass Castle by Jeanette Walls
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Jeannette Walls grew up with parents whose ideals and stubborn nonconformity were both their curse and their salvation. Rex and Rose Mary Walls had four children. …
Happy New Year from Special Collections and the Sabatini Gallery!
Our 2008 exhibit schedule will bring visions of hell, bug machines, bingo-playing seniors, a national contemporary print competition, impressions of Kansas from TSCPL's permanent collection and recent developments in the field of book arts.
First up is Dante's Inferno: Interpretations by Edward Navone and Robert Rauschenberg opening Friday, January 25. The last time I made contact with Mr. Alighieri's Commedia was junior year of high school, 1986, between Canturbury Tales and Wycherley's Country Wife, none of which I can resurrect in conversation without help. So, I refreshed my memory here and with the help of this and this, and came away thinking the Inferno was kind-of like a 14th-century roast of who's who in western civilization (but without the laughs).
Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser
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Fast food has hastened the malling of our landscape, widened the chasm between rich and poor, fueled an epidemic of obesity, and propelled American cultural imperialism abroad. That’s …