Blog entries tagged 'Washington Irving'

Brian Jay Jones: Holy Washington Irving, Batman!

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Readers of the HVBlog know full well that we are huge fans of Brian Jay Jones for many reasons, not the least of which is because he graciously sits in for us on occasion, allowing us to put down our pens...err...laptops, and let his fingers do the talking.

Now, with The Dark Knight all the rage (94% fres [...]

Brian Jay Jones...guest HVBlogger!

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debuted in "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" in the sixth installment of The Sketch Book in March 1820. Just as important, Irving and The Sketch Book proved to skeptical 19th century European readers and critics that American writers were for real. "Everywhere I find in it the marks of a mind of the utmost elegance and refinement," wrote an impressed William Godwin, "a thing as you know that I was not exactly prepared to look for in an American." Irving proved the criti [...]

Freakonomics and Washington Irving

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HVBlogger loved Freakonomics, as apparently do many others. The book that turns the dismal science on its head remains a best-seller some 18 months after its release.

Freakonomics co-author Stephen J. Dubner blogs on NYTimes.com. Yesterday he wrote about the troubles the Mark Twain house in Hartford, Conn., is experiencing. (Sad and scary, [...]

HHV connections in new Cokie Roberts book

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Ladies of Liberty: The Women who Shaped our Nation is the latest book by noted political correspondent and author Cokie Roberts. It's a companion volume to Founding Mothers, in which the author pays homage to the women whose patriotism and sacrifice helped create a new nation.

Much to HVBLogger's delight, the newly published book [...]

Brian Jones...the blogger

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Brian Jay Jones is NOT the dead Rolling Stone, but he is the author of the most recent bio of Washington Irving, called "An American Original."

Besides being a total Irving fanatic and pop culture junkie, Brian is an all around cool guy who makes his daily bread as a policy wonk in Maryland.

He spoke at Irving's homestead of Sunnyside last f [...]

Scary stuff out on DVD

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The classic tale of The Legend of Sleepy Hollow continues to inspire creative types nearly 200 years since Washington Irving penned it. Now, the latest film to pay horror homage is released on DVD today by First Look Studios. Entitled Headless Horseman (obviously these folks wanted to cut right to the chase, literally), it debuted in theaters last October.

This film follows seven youngsters who end up in a mysterious town on Halloween night, only to discover, yes you guessed i [...]

Irving tale hits the Metropolitan Playhouse stage

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Washington Irving may be best-known for his classic tales of a horseman sans head and a guy who slept for 20 years - The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Rip Van Winkle, respectively - but he wrote a heck of a lot more than that, much of it quite worthy of 21st-century minds.

That's why I'm excited to hear that the Metropolitan Playhouse is s [...]