Additional Resources for Plainsong
Please be aware that some of the links on this historical archive page may have expired.
Reviews of Plainsong
About the Author
- Contemporary Authors entry on Haruf (database no longer available through the libraries)
- Nebraska Center for Writers – Creighton University (site no longer exists)
- PeaceCorpsWriters Interview (no longer available)
- Zenana Book Club Author Bio
- Haruf’s page on the Southern Illinois University site (not recently updated)
- Kansas City Star interview by John Mark Eberhart – 9-14-2000
- Manitowoc Public Library (WI) – book and author info, plus discussion questions (no longer available)
- “Plainsong Author Pleased With Book’s Success” (article in SIU’s newspaper – 10-18-1999) (no longer available)
- Previewport.com Author Bio
- Interview with Haruf by Random House (publisher of Plainsong)
- Seattlepi.com interview with Haruf by Hillel Italie of AP – 11-5-1999 (no longer available)
- Greyrock Institute Writing Seminar – June 2002
About the Book
- Publisher’s information
- All-America Reads
- BookChatter.com description
- BookCrossing.com – 25+ copies of Plainsong have been “released into the wild”
- BookMuse.com entry on Plainsong – overview, author bio, discussion questions, guide to leading discussions on this title, much more:
- The International Impac Dublin Award (no longer available)
- Mountains and Plains Regional Booksellers Association Regional Book Awards (no longer available)
- Notes In The Margin Web site [background, description, brief review, list of other on-line resources] (no longer available)
- Plainsong selected for bi-state reading project – Kansas City, MO & Kansas City, KS “Plainsong” up for Book Award in New Yorker – 1-10-2000 (no longer available)
Excerpts from Plainsong
Reading Group Discussion Guides
Nebraska Center for Writers
About the Term “Plainsong”
Other Cities Reading Plainsong
- Daniel Boone Regional Library/Callaway-Columbia-Southern Boone Counties in Missouri (associated with Kansas City program)
- Critical Acclaim & Reviews
- Kansas City Region (major site with multiple resources)
- Spokane, Washington (major site with multiple resources) (all subsidiary pages are no longer available)
- Kent Haruf
- Plainsong
- Events
- Discussion Guidelines
- Discussion Questions
- Additional Reading
- Reader’s Survey (on-line Reading Group evaluation form)
- Vigo County – Terra Haute, Indiana (Plainsong was one of 3 finalists, ultimately not picked) (no longer available)
- Vigo County – Terra Haute, Indiana (5 page PDF) (no longer available)
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What Other Communities Are Reading
One Book Reading Promotion Projects (Library of Congress Center for the Book)
One Book – One Lincoln
One Book – One Lincoln – 2002