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During my stay in Louisville, I drove into the Highlands —an area near downtown Louisville marked by a ridge of land between the middle and south forks of Beargrass Creek—and found myself walking the eclectic commercial stretch of Bardstown Road from.
Topics: America, Bardstown Road, Highlands, keep Louisville weird, Kentucky, Kentucky Derby, Louisville, nina munteanu, pubs, restaurants, shopping, shops, tornado, tourism, travel, traveling

Yesterday, I was in Louisville, Kentucky, and spent some time in the Hurstbourne Barnes & Noble bookstore, signing copies of Darwin's Paradox . Get 'em while they're hot and newly autographed, folks! When I first got into Louisville, I...
Topics: Barnes and Noble, Darwin’s Paradox, flood, history, Kentucky, Kentucky Derby, Louisville, nina munteanu, slave trade

One of the most important devices to spice up narrative and increase pace is the use of dialogue. There’s a reason for this: we read dialogue more quickly; it’s written in more fluid, conversational English; it tends to create more white space on a...
Topics: books, literature, nina munteanu, novel, novelist, published author, writing, writing tips

When Paramount Pictures released the retro science-fiction adventure film, Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow , September of 2004, it had been much anticipated since June when it was first intended to hit theatres. Was the delay, due to director,...
Topics: CGI, Gwyneth Paltrow, Jude Law, movie review, movies, recursive fiction, retro-fiction, review, science fiction, Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow

My impressions of America are as varied as its people and its land, a major factor in one’s culture. As an ecologist, I was fascinated with this aspect while I traveled across the United States through several very different environments, including the.
Topics: America, central states, Great Plains, Kentucky, Louisville, Montana, nina munteanu, South Dakota, tornado alley, tornadoes, traveling, travels, twisters, United States, Wyoming