Archive for Bruce Edward Walker

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Bruce Edward Walker is communications manager for the Mackinac Center for Public Policy’s Property Rights Network. He has authored CliffsNotes on Ken Kesey’s One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Edith Wharton’s The House of Mirth, Willa Cather’s Death Comes for the Archbishop, and Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland in addition to writing more than a hundred reference book, magazine, and newspaper articles on arts funding, novelists, poets, philosophers, filmmakers, and musicians.

Art Needs No State Subsidies

It’s feeding time again, and artists and cultural groups are lining up at the trough. The bailout package approved by Congress in February threw another $50 million at the arts. For the better part of the past year, music impresario Quincy Jones beseeched Barack Obama to add a secretary of arts to his cabinet. In [...]

23Oct2009 | Bruce Edward Walker | 1 comment | Continued

Eimi Mine

E. E. Cummings is one of the most beloved American poets of the twentieth century. He perhaps is best known to contemporary readers for his experimental and playful verse in the Modernist tradition. But he also wrote two important prose works that unfortunately have been relegated to relative obscurity. The first, The Enormous Room, is [...]

1Dec2008 | Bruce Edward Walker | 0 comments | Continued