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- A Literary Look at Cuba in Revolt - Nevada Appeal
LOS ANGELES -- When Americans think of 1950s Cuba, they tend to picture Fidel Castro ranting in tattered fatigues about the revolution. But a new novel shows us, instead, United Fruit Co. executives in starched linen suits, daughters who play Chopin ...
- Intercourse’ tales aim beyond erotic - Tacoma News 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 “Tabloid Dreams” (1996), inspired by supermarket weekly headlines, from mere whimsy ...
- Patterson: A heart full of memories - Topeka Capitol-Journal Blogs
As if to confirm the illusion that time flies, I recently realized it's been a dozen years since I retired from my 30-year stint as a child psychologist. To commemorate the occasion, random vignettes have been parading across my memory. Though each ...
- Portsmouth area Senior News - Portsmouth Herald News
Portsmouth area Senior NewsPortsmouth Herald News, NH - 4 hours agoMeals are served daily Monday-Friday at noon. Call Laurie at 431-0561 to make a reservation. n STUDIO A offers a SENIOR SOCIAL gathering featuring weekly ...
- Mahmoud Darwish, Leading Palestinian Poet, Is Dead at 67 (New York Times)
Mr. Darwish?s prose gave voice to the Palestinian experience of exile, occupation and infighting.
- University of Hawaii - UH System Current News
UH System Current NewsUniversity of HawaiiUH System Current News, HI - 13 hours agoIn addition to her scholarly work, she enjoys creative writing and has had her poetry and fiction appear in local publications such as “Bamboo Ridge. ...
- Robert Macfarlane's 'The Wild Places' (International Herald Tribune)
Robert Macfarlane's 'The Wild Places' is a formidable consideration of the British landscape, by a naturalist who can unfurl a sentence — poetry, really — with the breathless ease of a master angler, a writer whose ideas and reach far transcend the physical region he explores.
- Amy Winehouse lyrics analysed as poetry by Cambridge University students (Daily Telegraph)
Cambridge University students have been asked to compare the lyrics of the pop star Amy Winehouse with the poetry of Sir Walter Ralegh in a final year exam paper.
- Like a flower blooming on a battlefield, art begins to flourish in ... - Los Angeles Times
Like a flower blooming on a battlefield, art begins to flourish in ...Los Angeles Times, CA - 3 hours agoUgliness replaced beauty, and the finer things -- art, music, poetry -- seemed unbearable luxuries, like a rich dessert on an empty stomach. ...
- Zorba the Israeli - Haaretz.com
"I expect nothing. I fear nothing. I am free," reads the epitaph on the grave of Nikos Kazantzakis, located in a cemetery in Heraklion on the island of Crete. Kazantzakis, of "Zorba the Greek" fame, is not merely an author, poet, translator, and ...
- Ottawa axes second arts subsidy in two weeks - Globe and Mail
Greg Stevens from SIDNEY, Canada writes: When are the arts going to recognize that private patrons and their customers are their support, and not the taxpayers, many of whom are seniors, others are losing their jobs, or worried about their homes and ...
- Steve Ralls: I Love You; Please Go Away (HuffingtonPost)
Several years ago, I attended a poetry slam at New York's Bowery Poetry Club. One of the presenting poets, whose name now escapes me, tore...
- Hip-Hop Rumors: Diddy & Cassie Engaged? Solange & Mario? Nas Vs CNN? A ... - allhiphop.com
I’m sure you heard the track. The Game sent a shot at Eminem, it would seem. Here it is: "All the pictures of me and Em, I burned them/So there ain't no proof I walked through 8 Mile/ And so since it ain't no Proof, I'll never walk through 8 Mile ...
- Emory Professor Natasha Trethewey Named Georgia Woman of the Year (The Weekly)
ATLANTA, GA (July 28, 2008) - Georgia Woman of the Year Committee, Inc. announced today that Natasha Trethewey, Professor of English and Phillis Wheatley Distinguished Chair at Emory University has been confirmed as 2008 Georgia Woman of the Year! Nellie Dunaway Duke, Committee Chair, said that Trethewey was chosen as the 13th honoree by the Committee on their first ballot at their annual ...
- Deconstructing Scotland, its myths - Washington Times
Washington TimesDeconstructing Scotland, its mythsWashington Times, DC - 6 hours agoHe takes as examples the ancient constitution, the ancient poetry of Ossian, and the traditional garb of kilt and plaid. Each of these venerable artifacts ...
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