CBS drew a healthy aud for its Hallmark Hall of Fame presentation of “Plainsong,” teaming with another strong showing by rookie drama “Cold Case” to lift the Eye to the largest audience for any ...

To scoffers who attacked my native Midwest, mostly back in college days, I would quote Adlai Stevenson: "In quiet places, reason abounds." It seemed a succinct defense of small-town America. In those ...

To people who would attack my native Midwest, mostly back in my college days, I would quote Adlai Stevenson: "In quiet places, reason abounds." It seemed a defense of small-town America. In those same ...

I am going to commit literary hara kari and publicly admit I don’t love Hemingway. Yes, I see the beauty in his writing, and yes, he changed the dialogue and voice of contemporary American fiction, ...

Wondering why I haven’t been reading lately? I have. I promise. I just wasn’t getting anywhere. I had this great idea to read Virgil’s “The Aeneid.” However, it was taking me forever. So I watched ...

Kent Haruf wrote the words to accompany Peter Brown’s photo display on the quiet isolation of life in rural eastern Colorado: “You have to know how to look at this country. You have to slow down. It ...

“Plainsong” is the silver spur of a trio of new American plays now being presented simultaneously by the Denver Center Theatre Company. Individually, each works in its own way and for its own audience ...

Before she would take what was to become the jacket photo of Kent Haruf on his acclaimed third novel “Plainsong,” his wife, Cathy, made him press his shirt pockets. He is most comfortable in broken-in ...