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- Robert Peston (BBC News)
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- Chat With Me Today (Washington Post)
Worried about the economy? Ticked off about the administration's attempt to strong-arm Congress into passing a massive bailout for Wall Street? I'm here to listen and advise. Chat with me today online at noon ET if you need to vent about the current economic crisis.
- Literary Happenings: Focus also on writers' rights in China (Ventura County Star)
With the Olympic Games opening in Beijing this week, the eyes of the world are focused on China. But athletics isn't the only topic under discussion. There are literary concerns, too.
- the illuminations of Patti Smith - The Australian
the illuminations of Patti SmithThe Australian, Australia - 46 minutes ago... from Oscar Wilde's fairytales to Arthur Rimbaud's poetry, the film that has been made about her over the past 12 years by Steven Sebring, Dream of Life, ...
- Rilke and the question of self-identity - Telegraph.co.uk
Rilke and the question of self-identityTelegraph.co.uk, United Kingdom - 44 minutes agoBy AN Wilson Poetry is language compressed. It is many other things, too, but try expounding any favourite poem and your prose will be double or triple the ...
- Vicky Cristina Barcelona (DVD Talk)
Woody Allen continues his unmatchable pace of making at least a film a year with Vicky Cristina Barcelona , a complex and thoroughly entertaining examination of the vagaries of love.
- Int'l poetry night at Redbones café - Jamaica Gleaner
With performers from Jamaica, Canada (by way of Jamaica) and the Turks and Caicos Islands, plus snippets from nine-year-old Irish-Italian Margaret and Kadija from England, last Wednesday's 'Contemporary Literature' at Redbones the Blues Café turned ...
- Remembering 9/11 (The Daily Home)
It came from the hurt she knew was raging in New York that day, and the poem she wrote was one to help people heal and look for answers.
- Lonesome and blue - Columbia Daily Tribune
Lonesome and blueColumbia Daily Tribune, MO - 1 hour agoHis bare-knuckle, barroom poetry takes the point of view of hard-bitten losers and boozers, and it’s shot with blue-collar authenticity. ...
- Signing off: the weird world of book signings - The Independent
To some authors, the book-signing is a curse. What could be more excruciatingly dull, to the sensitive creative mind, than to sit for hours in a festival tent or bookshop, inscribing your name on several hundred copies of your new masterpiece? This ...
- Still life: sitting for Lucian Freud (Guardian Unlimited)
I've been sitting for Lucian for around 10 years now; I visit him every morning, so it's part of my life. It's a different sense of timing to anything else I do. The stillness is very therapeutic although you can't shut off completely.
- Theater friends help actress battle breast cancer - The Times-Picayune - NOLA.com
Theater friends help actress battle breast cancerThe Times-Picayune - NOLA.com, LA - 2 hours agoThat means she's funny and fun to work with and always as excited about doing a show as a kid cast in a Christmas play." In conjunction with the Le Chat ...
- Spike in sales for next poet laureate - Times Daily
Kay Ryan is no longer an unknown poet. Demand for her work jumped sharply Thursday upon the Library of Congress' announcement that she had been named the new U.S. poet laureate, a one-year term beginning in the fall. Her collections "The Niagara ...
- Aurora man dies riding bike in Ohio - Beacon News
A 57-year-old Aurora man died last week doing what he loved most -- riding his bike. Paul Sorenson, a senior mechanical designer with Owens-Illinois -- a glass manufacturer -- was found injured on a Toledo, Ohio, bike trail by a passerby around 8:45 ...
- Books: Peeking into the minds of lovers - Salt Lake Tribune
No serious writer in America works with a lighter touch than Robert Olen Butler. That sure hand, guided by a potent creative intelligence, saves books like 1996's "Tabloid Dreams," inspired by supermarket weekly headlines, from mere whimsy. Butler ...
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