Why German? Third Nobel Prize in the Last Ten Years for German-Speaking Author

The announcement of Herta Müller’s Nobel Prize for Literature to be presented in Stockholm this December brings the number of German-speaking authors having received the prestigious award to three in the last 10 years:  Günter Grass received the award in 1999 and the Austrian Elfriede Jelinek claimed the prize in 2004.   The Nobel Prize is [...]

Book Review: The Ripest Moments: A Southern Indiana Childhood. By Norbert Krapf

Norbert Krapf has justly accumulated accolades since returning to his Indiana home from New York in 2004.  Producing 5 books and a Jazz CD in those 5 years, Krapf, Indiana’s Poet Laureate, shares some of that rich harvest with his 2008 The Ripest Moments: A Southern Indiana Childhood. Oddly enough, this book is not a collection [...]