Comments on: Louisville: Word to the People

By: tod garrison

tod garrison — Sun, 21 Nov 2010 15:33:34 +0000

Without any question it’s Sallie Bingham

By: Delene Taylor

Delene Taylor — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 19:40:17 +0000

Check out Dear Editor by Louisville author Bill Womack…available on amazon.com, barnesandnoble.com and at numerous local bookstores. Visit his site at http://www.deareditorbook.com or find him on Facebook (search “Bill C Womack”). You may remember seeing Bill’s name often in the Courier-Journal…over 40 of his letters to the editor have been published so far. I highly recommend his book…a great read on today’s hot issues!

By: Mary Naughton

Mary Naughton — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 18:39:31 +0000

Sorry I didn’t catch this in time to vote. Hunter Thompson and Sue Grafton are both good popular writers (I’m a Sue Grafton fan myself) but when people in the future look to find out what the 20th century was about, it’s Thomas Merton they will look to. He died in 1968 and you can still find his books on any library or bookstore shelf. He inspired those who lived through WW II in 1948, my generation in the 1960′s and now is influencing a whole new generation of young people. Thomas Merton it is!

By: JD

JD — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 23:32:20 +0000

What about Liz Curtiss Higgs? She currently has 28 books available on Amazon.com – surely she merits recognition as a local author with international success!

By: Nancy Walker

Nancy Walker — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 19:20:11 +0000

Well, I am number 19 on this list and I am writing again! Thanks for fixing it so that I could vote! LOL After seeing the results so far, I would say that I better read Hunter S. Thompson!

By: Patrick Schmidt

Patrick Schmidt — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 20:26:16 +0000

An important way to handle government or city hall is to pop the ‘imperial mystique’ and no one did it more irreverently than Hunter S. Thompson.

By: Jan Upton

Jan Upton — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 19:54:30 +0000

OKAY!

By: Jan Upton

Jan Upton — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 19:49:28 +0000

Hell’s Angels, definitely. Love the Hunter. Brilliant mind combined with superb humor renders joyful reading. Have read much of Hunter’s oeuvre, but this one has escaped me thus far. Mayor Jerry, please send me a copy!

By: Dave Henry

Dave Henry — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 19:05:55 +0000

Merton was the better writer, a global thinker, poet, scholar, possessed of an expansive spirit, and at times possessed by genius. He could also be hilarious and wickedly irreverent, known to down a half-dozen martinis before dinner when managed a furlough from the monastery. He was no theologian, catfish. And he never lived in Louisville. So my vote goes to the great and irrepressible Hunter Thompson. Long may he wave!

By: Dan

Dan — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 18:22:19 +0000

I remember seeing ‘Night, Mother at Actors Theatre in one of its early productions, and it remains one of the most haunting plays I’ve ever seen. Wonderfully written, of course, and enhanced by an inspired production. I’d love to have a copy of that on my shelf, and Jerry’s signature would be almost as good as Marsha Norman’s.