Jan 28, 2021
James Oakes is a two-time winner of the Lincoln Prize for Civil War studies. As he tells Colin, he initially went to college for business, but an English teacher at Baruch College wisely turned him away from the world of international finance. Since then, he has made a name for himself as a distinguished scholar of the...
Jan 10, 2021
Michael Gorra is a native of Connecticut who has taught at Smith College since the 1970s. A professor of English, his most recent book is The Saddest Words: William Faulkner's Civil War. This book builds on a career dedicated to examining writers such as Henry James and V. S. Naipaul. In Faulkner, Professor Gorra...
Jan 3, 2021
Colin gives a sneak peak at his January 6 "Legacies and Lunch" talk for the Central Arkansas Public Library in Little Rock. His talk will be on his upcoming book Country Boy: The Roots of Johnny Cash, coming out in the fall of 2021 from the University of Arkansas Press.
Country Boy seeks to reclaim Cash for Arkansas. In...