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- Not your average poet: Award-winning writer/recycling coordinator is ... - St. Cloud Times
ST. JOSEPH — Larry Schug always has something to write about. It’s how he knows he’s alive. “People say, ‘I don’t know what to write about,’ and I say, ‘What, did you wake up dead this morning?’ ” he said. “Turn off the TV every ...
- Identity in the East End - Guardian Unlimited
Sometime in the late 60s, the novelist and poet Emanuel Litvinoff took a trip back to Whitechapel in the East End of London, where he had grown up in the 1920s and 1930s. He expected to find some version of the Jewish neighbourhood that had formed ...
- Style inspired crime novelists - Chicago Tribune
James Crumley, 68, whose poetic and violent tales of crime in the American West made him a patron saint of the post-Vietnam private eye novel, died of complications from kidney and pulmonary diseases Tuesday in Missoula, Mont., where he lived. Mr ...
- Prominent political prisoner freed in Myanmar - Hanford Sentinel
YANGON, Myanmar - Myanmar's longest-serving political prisoner was among more than 9,000 inmates freed Tuesday, days before the first anniversary of the junta's deadly crackdown on anti-government protests led by Buddhist monks. Win Tin, a journalist ...
- Something about Mary - Sydney Morning Herald
Intrigued by the journeys of Australia's saint-in-waiting, Dugald Jellie sets off in the footsteps of Mary MacKillop. Holy sites ... (from top) inside the memorial chapel in North Sydney; the school she opened in Penola, South Australia; Mary's tomb ...
- Death of Solzhenitsyn : A dazzling flame extinguished - New Nation
Not for a split of a second time freezes, not for a micro millimeter the Earth wobbles off its trajectory at the deaths of thousands of people everyday. But, at times news of death of a single luminary sends people the world over into fits of ...
- Poet of Reason - The Weekly Standard
Poet of ReasonThe Weekly Standard - 18 hours ago... and certainly she is adept with a variety of forms; but another trait is more important. The formal property most distinctive in Salter's poetry ...
- Palestinian national poet Mahmoud Darwish dies in Houston at 67 - Canada East
Nabil Abu Rdeneh, an Abbas spokesman, says Darwish died at a hospital in Houston, Texas, following complications from an open heart surgery. Darwish is the world's most recognized Palestinian poet, who became a Palestinian cultural icon who has ...
- SIUC college of liberal arts hires 24 new faculty members - Southern Illinoisan
CARBONDALE -- With the fall semester beginning today, Southern Illinois University Carbondale's biggest college has more than 20 new faculty members who have been hired. The college of liberal arts has24 new faculty members this academic year into ...
- Fashionably late - Guardian Unlimited
In the year before he died, Beethoven somehow constructed in the silence of his mind a fiendishly difficult string quartet, the Grosse Fuge. (He was by then unable to hear anything he composed.) Shakespeare, in the last of the plays that academic ...
- Half-dozen young writers to vie for $120K Dylan Thomas Prize (CBC)
A half-dozen young writers hailing from three continents are in the running for the Dylan Thomas Prize, organizers announced in London on Tuesday.
- Home by Marilynne Robinson - London Review of Books (subscription)
Home by Marilynne RobinsonLondon Review of Books (subscription), UK - 4 hours ago‘Home,’ Mary suggests in Robert Frost’s 1914 poem ‘The Death of the Hired Man’, ‘is the place where, when you have to go there,/They have to take you in. ...
- Church news in brief - West Salem Coulee News
Church news in briefWest Salem Coulee News, WI - 3 hours agoCanadian author and poet Ray McGinnis will lead a Psalm-writing, journaling and poetry workshop entitled “Writing the Sacred” at First Congregational UCC ...
- Witty playwright known to live hard - Miami Herald
Simon Gray, who wrote bitingly comic plays like Butley , Otherwise Engaged and Quartermaine's Terms about the educated British middle class and whose almost manically confessional late-in-life memoirs turned his sardonic intelligence upon himself ...
- Diane Sawyer - News Busters
One of the favors the media routinely perform for liberal politicians is citing left-of-center think tanks as "non-partisan" entities, who just happen to have evidence proving the awfulness of conservative policies. A classic example occurred on the ...
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