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- Trivia contest highlights city knowledge (Portage Daily Register)
Susan Gorsuch of Pardeeville spent the past week researching the history of Portage in anticipation of Thursday's Portage Trivia Contest. Unfortunately for Gorsuch, no one showed up to participate.
- Keeping Brunei's Traditional Literature Alive (BruDirect.com)
Bandar Seri Begawan- The finals of the 11th national-level traditional poetry recital competition or the Syair, for secondary schools, colleges and private education institutions in conjunction with Teacher's Day was held yesterday at the Dewan Serrnayuda of the Language and Literature Bureau in Berakas.
- Sweet memories of San Miguel (Ventura County Star)
Betsy Lester Roberti saw ghosts of love and a lost life on a recent afternoon at San Miguel Island. Both had been snatched away — suddenly, darkly — long ago. She held the ruins of her old home in her hands on this sunny midsummer's day. Ghosts, good and bad, have a way of hanging around like a permanent curtain, like the eternal sea. They come back whenever she returns to San Miguel. ...
- Culli: Auction days nearing their end - Register-News
As summer winds down, one of the things I’m going to miss is being able to hit auctions on weekends. O.K., I admit it. I feel a rush whenever I get a good buy on something and it doesn’t matter where. I don’t think I’ve paid full price on a ...
- Not poetry, but not bad (Pahrump Valley Times)
Let's say someone wronged you. They cut you off in traffic. Stole from you. Backed into your car and didn't leave a note. Hacked into your computer and left a virus.
- Spend Ă‚ÂŁ20m on Gaelic TV? It's Greek to me - Times Online
There is a pleasing synergy to the news that Scotland’s first dedicated Gaelic television channel is to launch with a drama about Elvis. Raising the dead to resuscitate the dying neatly sums up the Gaelic conundrum. BBC Alba will initially be ...
- SparkCon festival planned this weekend - WRAL
The SparkCon festival, a local talent showcase and series of workshops, is being held in downtown Raleigh this weekend. Street painters, graffiti artists, yoga instructors, filmmakers, musicians, tattoo artists and others will hold demonstrations of ...
- Art shock troops mock Russian establishment - Reuters UK
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Carrying bags of stolen groceries, Oleg Vorotnikov takes out the batteries of his mobile phone before entering the secret headquarters of his underground art collective on the outskirts of Moscow. "This is to prevent the cops from ...
- Republican Veepstakes Line: The Final Cut (Washington Post)
DENVER -- With John McCain expected to reveal his vice presidential pick in the next 24 hours, The Fix decided to take one last crack at our rankings of the men (and woman) most likely to receive that phone call...
- Authors announced for this semester's Visiting Writers Series at UCM - digitalBURG.com
Authors announced for this semester's Visiting Writers Series at UCMdigitalBURG.com, MO - 55 minutes agoAn editor at both "Publishers Weekly" and "Pleiades," his poetry has been published in "The Yale Review," "The Paris Review," "Verse," and other journals. ...
- Nonprofit thinks big to recruit volunteers - Akron Beacon Journal
Nonprofit thinks big to recruit volunteersAkron Beacon Journal, OH - 11 hours agoTeen poets from the area will compete in the Grand Slam Poetry Championship from 6 to 10 pm Tuesday at Weathervane Community Playhouse in Akron. ...
- Challenge yourself - MU The Parthenon (subscription)
Challenge yourselfMU The Parthenon (subscription), WV - 3 hours agoIt is sad that we still live in a time where writers of novels, short stories and poetry cannot always get their voices heard because of their views. ...
- American literary friendships Hers and his - Economist
American literary friendships Hers and hisEconomist, UK - 51 minutes agoMs Wineapple’s bravura critique of this landmark letter, matched by her incisive and readable analysis of the poetry, teases out the ambiguities of ...
- Book Review: Friday's Child by Georgette Heyer - Blogcritics.org
See also: » Book Review: Simple Knits for Little Cherubs by Erika Knight » Book Review: The Likeness by Tana French » Book Review: Up Pops The Devil by Angela Benson Georgette Heyer was a midcentury novelist, English by birth, fiercely private by ...
- Flaubert's Overcoat: James Wood's 'How Fiction Works' - New York Sun
Flaubert's Overcoat: James Wood's 'How Fiction Works'New York Sun, United States - Aug 12, 2008A novelist, "to achieve his lightest wish," must "Become the whole of boredom, subject to / Vulgar complaints like love." Among the just, the novelist must ...
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