Journals and Diaries

Leacock home a tale of tenacity (Orillia Packet & Times)

5 Jul 2008

The whimsical summer kingdom of a literary legend, Old Brewery Bay stands proudly among Canada's historical properties. But, like a castle built on an iceberg, Stephen Leacock's charming waterfront home has had a perilous existence, threatened by a resentful city council, an ambivalent citizenry and hungry developers. [...]

The return of the western (Vail Daily)

4 Jul 2008

Inexplicably, the western epic has disappeared in recent years, perhaps because nobody dared to touch the genre since Larry McMurtry published “Lonesome Dove,� the great American novel.

Collier’s former Web page profiles made references to white supremacy (Bartlesville Examiner-Enterprise)

4 Jul 2008

Accusations of racism recently leveled at a 19-year-old Bartlesville man involved in a fight last month outside a local drive-in restaurant are attributed in part to his former online profiles.