Patrick Parr
Patrick Parr is the author of One Week in America: The 1968 Notre Dame Literary Festival and a Changing Nation. His website is www.patrickparr.com.
Posts by Patrick Parr
Two Good Humans: The Friendship Between Carl Sagan and Kurt Vonnegut
CARL SAGAN FIRST ENTERED KURT VONNEGUT'S ORBIT IN 1966. The satirist was working at the time as a creative writing professor at the University... Read More
An International Reaction to Donald Trump’s Immigrant Ban
“In a real sense all life is interrelated. All men are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of... Read More
Book Review: Killing the Rising Sun by Bill O’Reilly
In a way Bill O’Reilly is a literary version of Donald Trump—a man hell-bent on justifying his intellect by rehashing history while digging only... Read More
Barbara McClintock (1902-1992): Fighting the Male Establishment
“There was not that strong necessity for a personal attachment to anybody…I just didn’t feel it. And I could never understand marriage…I never went... Read More
Eight Reasons Darwin Almost Didn’t Board the HMS Beagle
For Charles Darwin, it was an invitation from his former Cambridge mentor J.S. Henslow that would change his life. Up until that time, Darwin... Read More
Robert Louis Stevenson Says No to Religion
ON THE NIGHT of January 30, 1873, in his home at 17 Heriot Row in Edinburgh, Scotland, Robert Louis Stevenson told his parents that... Read More
James Baldwin Battles Humanity
“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught... Read More