Photo by Terri Hug
Last year we introduced Lexington to Literary City Guides, and now another Kentucky city joins the group. Our guide Terri is a Wisconsin transplant that now calls the city home, and helps you walk the streets of Louisville to find coffee and crepes, an art gallery that hosts poetry readings, and a bar celebrating writer Hunter S. Thompson with a mural personally approved by his wife, Anita.
We're back in the midwest today, visiting a truly literary town. Here's how our guide Susan Miller describes the charming city of Indianapolis.
"As soon as visitors arrive by plane, they are greeted by glass installations in the airport etched with poetry written by Indiana poets. This is just the beginning of this city’s surprising literary legacy."
Read through the guide and you'll discover a memorial library honoring Kurt Vonnegut (as well as a restaurant named after one of his books), a coffee shop that donates to charity, and enough readings and conferences to keep you busy all year.
Well. Here we are, the thirty-first day of October. Last month I told you what was about to happen, and on Monday, October 5, our lives changed forever. It's been a pretty incredible few weeks. As it turns out, nursing provides ample time to catch up on RSS feeds and ebooks, so I've managed to stay relatively up to date on what's going on in the world. Here's a peek at what I've been reading + the food I want to be eating once I start cooking more regularly again.
The 10 stages of the creative process.
Ruth Reichl on food, writing and the joys of the baked potato.
Which type of library user are you?
Stop hustling and get your life back.
Parents today are often chastised for being distracted by their devices, for devoting more attention to their phones than to their children.
A new way to entertain.
We create out loud.
A new approach: Screw finding your passion.
Can you practice simple living but still love your stuff?
Food I want to make: pumpkin spice latte, spelt cornbread with raspberries, amaranth porridge with roasted pears, and pumpkin flatbread with gruyere and sage.