Robert Penn Warren Archives

Kentuckians invited to attend 2025 Writers’ Day activities April 24 in Frankfort

April 4, 2025April 3, 20250

Staff report The Kentucky Arts Council is inviting the public to attend the 2025 Writers’ Day activities in Frankfort on…

September 27, 2022September 27, 20220

By Steve Flairty NKyTribune columnist Although I possess a dozen or so books written by or about Robert Penn Warren,…

April 16, 2019April 15, 20190

When Mark Twain declared, “When the end of the world comes, I want to be in Kentucky, because everything there…

August 20, 2018August 19, 20180

Kentucky Humanities will present Democracy & the Informed Citizen, the first in a series of five community discussions on the…

July 24, 2018July 25, 20180

Six hundred-sixty-one. That’s a passel of pages to read. Just figuring out how long it takes to reach the end…

July 14, 2018July 13, 20180

Robert Penn Warren’s groundbreaking novel of politics, power and corruption, “All the King’s Men,” was published over 70 years ago…

May 1, 2018April 30, 20180

Kentucky Humanities’ new project, Kentucky Reads: All the King’s Men, will use Robert Penn Warren’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel to guide…

May 31, 2017May 30, 20170

On June 1, the Commonwealth of Kentucky will celebrate the 225th anniversary of its admittance as a state into the…

February 14, 2017February 13, 20170

By Steve Flairty NKyTribune columnist My sweet spot for leisurely travel destinations is almost always centered within the state of…

March 26, 2015March 30, 20150

In addition to the books I review for the NKyTribune, many of my friends and acquaintances have asked for a…