Sarah's Book Club Nov 17, 2009
(As if to prove it, her book name checks C.S. Lewis, National Geographic, Ogden Nash, Animal Farm, Sports Illustrated, and John Steinbeckall within the first 30 pages. You thought she hated Levi. (Slate)
The Black Arts of Literary Biography Oct 30, 2009
A minor writer I admire is Ogden Nash. You know the guy Candy/ Is dandy/ But liquor/ Is quicker. (The American Conservative)
Jones River Writers: Joan Lyons Oct 3, 2009
Her tastes include biographies, fiction, historical novels, the children s poetry of Jack Prelutsky s and even nonsense poems, especially those of Ogden Nash. She has many favorite authors including Herman Melville, Dan Brown, and a treasured local author, Doris Johnson. (Kingston Mariner, MA)
Folk's Beloved Princess: Mary Travers Dies at 72 Sep 18, 2009
When Yarrow was at Cornell, a fellow undergraduate, future indie filmmaker Lenny Lipton, had written a poem in the spirit of Ogden Nash; Yarrow set it to music, and a few years later the trio recorded "Puff the Magic Dragon." This children's song, with its fanciful friendship and lilting chorus, would dominate the Top 40 and be sung in summer camp forever after. To the cognoscenti, this was a drug song in pop-music code: Puff, drag-on, "little Jackie Paper." Hipsters began referring to the group... (Time.com)
Karla Kuskin, children's book writer, dies at 77 Aug 24, 2009
She quickly became a devotee of Robert Frost, Ogden Nash, A.A. Milne and the Mother Goose books, among many others. "Every week I took out piles of books. After school I would curl up with a book, cookies and milk," she wrote in a brief autobiography on the Web site scholastic. (Longview Daily News, WA)
Silliman considers the business of the MFA Aug 13, 2009
is comprised of Rumi, Frost, Collins, the Little Portuguese, Ogden Nash and Eddie Guest. On the other, we have a deluded "avant-garde" churning out turgid and prolix monuments which less than. (Harper's Magazine)
Sweetness and Spite Jun 25, 2009
There was Ogden Nash, with his preposterously ingenious line endings: who else would have dared to emphasize that calliope, properly pronounced, rhymes with diaper. There was Morris Bishop, professor of Romance Languages at Cornell, not to mention biographer of Petrarch, Pascal, La Rochefoucauld, and Samuel de Champlain. (The American Conservative)
Get Caught Reading in May May 3, 2009
It includes letters from: Sara Bernhardt, Lord Byron, Ogden Nash, Edith Wharton, Groucho Marx, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and other famous personalities. Directed by Robert R. Troie and featuring Garry Mitchell and Joan Macfarlan. (Harwich Oracle, MA)
Cow genome unraveled to improve meat, milk Apr 28, 2009
While poet Ogden Nash had cow basics down, it took 300 scientists six years to outline the genetic sequence of "L1 Dominette 01449," a Hereford cow living on a research farm near Miles City, Mont. Researchers led by the National Institutes of Health and the U.S. Department of Agriculture report their findings in a herd of 20 papers appearing in Friday's edition of the journal Science and other journals including Genome Biology. (MSNBC -- Technology)
A librarian shares her poetry picks for young and old Apr 13, 2009
She has selected poems from such classic authors as T.S. Eliot, Edward Lear, Langston Hughes, Ogden Nash, William Shakespeare, and even her own mother, writing as Jacqueline Bouvier. Poems for children and adults are included, making this a multigenerational treat. (Fresno Bee -- Lifestyle)
Poetry for the people, all month long Apr 2, 2009
To prime your poetry pump I volunteer this vintage verse from the inimitable Ogden Nash. The trouble with a kitten is. (Lihue Garden Island, HA)
Developer seeks to replace Saunders restaurant with condos Mar 13, 2009
A frequent patron was poet Ogden Nash. In 1972 after being closed for two summers, Saunders was sold to Doug and Nancy Zechel. (Seacoast New Hampshire)
At Your Library: Programs to lift winter spirits Mar 6, 2009
It includes letters from Sarah Bernhardt, Lord Byron, Ogden Nash, Edith Wharton, Groucho Marx, Madam DuBarry and many others. The second in our Books That Made it To the Movies series will be Atonement shown on Saturday, March 21 at 1 p.m. Director Joe Wright gives Ian McEwan s best-selling novel a sumptuous treatment for the screen that should come to be regarded as one of the defining films of the epic romantic drama. (Harwich Oracle, MA)
