Photo by Hunter D’Antuono | Flathead Beacon Margaret Davis is, admittedly, a book lover. But while that might suggest an ulterior motive for organizing a book festival, the Northwest Montana History Museum director said that she thinks it’s obvious that there is a more widespread demand for this kind of free community event. The idea […]
Amazon Prime van in Milan. Photograph by Saggittarius A, via Wikimedia Commons . Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 . Kinsey (2004) dir. Bill Condon ★★★☆☆ Biopics Are Always a Little Disappointing … February 10, 2005 No matter how well scripted, they’re hidebound by having to stick to the outward facts of their subject’s life. I […]
Bruce Degen signing a poster at a book store in Minneapolis. He collaborated on 14 books in the “Magic School Bus” series. Bruce Degen, the illustrator of “The Magic School Bus” series of children’s books, died on Thursday at his home in Newtown, Conn. He was 79. The cause was pancreatic cancer, his family said. […]
“Didion & Babitz” presents Joan Didion (left) and Eve Babitz as “two halves of American womanhood.” DIDION & BABITZ , by Lili Anolik The writers Joan Didion and Eve Babitz were both ambitious California natives, moved in similar circles in Hollywood in the 1960s and ’70s and died within days of each other, in December […]