Book: Camera Boy on war, hell and the in-between

When Fred Minnick smiles or laughs, he seems momentarily transformed into a young boy, filled with innocence. Dimples form and his blues eyes seem illuminated.

Book: Essays for ‘Lunch’

Naked Lunch @ 50

Edited by Oliver Harris and Ian MacFadyen. Southern Illinois University Press; 312 pgs., $34.95.

Book: A conversation with Jane Smiley

I read the novella “The Age of Grief” more than 10 years ago, before it became the movie “The Secret Lives of Dentists.” I’ve owned six copies since then; none of the

Book: Profile of Kiki Petrosino

To give LEO readers an idea of the quality talent Sarabande puts out, I decided to profile the work of an up-and-coming poet named Kiki Petrosino.

Book: Sarabande turns 15

It has been 15 years since Sarah Gorham and her husband, Jeffrey Skinner, started Sarabande Books, and it is amazing to think that most people in Louisville still haven’t heard o

Book: The shades of Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Elizabeth Cady Stanton: An American Life
(By Lori D. Ginzberg. Hill and Wang; 254 pgs., $25.)

Guy Davenport: The last American Jack

Guy Davenport came to teach English at the University of Kentucky in 1963.

A Guy Davenport bibliography

 Fiction

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