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- Helpless, Soucouyant nominated for Toronto Book Award (CBC Toronto)
Barbara Gowdy's novel Helpless, which earlier this year won the Trillium Book Award, and Soucouyant, a debut novel that also was nominated for the Governor General's Award for Literature, are both finalists for the Toronto Book Award.
- Bookseller blogs on artifacts retrieved from used books - Abington Mariner
“STAG VERY SUCCESFUL AM QUITE DRUNK STOP.” Ernie probably meant those words only for Miss Rosalie of Fall River when he sent her a Western Union telegram in 1948. But 60 years later, the telegram hangs in a small black frame among the shelves of ...
- Service is Tuesday for Carrie Allen McCray Nickens (The State)
A memorial service for the writer Carrie Allen McCray Nickens will be held at 11 a.m. Tuesday at Second Calvary Baptist Church, 1110 Mason Road in Columbia. Manigault-Hurley Funeral Home is handling the arrangements. Nickens, who died Friday at 95, became a well-known and respected writer in her 70s. Her first poetry book, “Piece of Time,” was published in 1993. She came to much wider ...
- A traveler finds a home at SU - Winchester Star
Winchester — Tracy Fitzsimmons lives by three basic tenets and one tradition. Always help people move. Always pick someone up or drop him off. Always buy something from children selling something. But only if they ask nicely. The tradition: At each ...
- Even after war, many Georgians revere Stalin - International Herald Tribune
GORI, Georgia : With his signature mustache, medal-encrusted Soviet marshal's uniform and determination to be addressed as "Comrade," the Stalin impersonator Jamil Ziyadaliev should perhaps be out of work in Georgia, a country still reeling from a ...
- One choreographer stands out in Chelonia Dance's Chicago debut - Chicago Sun-Times
For modern dance choreographers, a college teaching job is about as good as it gets. Unlike writers, painters and composers, choreographers need two hard-to-come-by resources: A studio in which to create work, and a sure supply of dancers on which to ...
- 'Brooklyn' mystery lacks characters - Myrtle Beach Sun News
'Brooklyn' mystery lacks charactersMyrtle Beach Sun News, SC - 4 hours agoShe also has a book of poetry and four short story collections, which also have been well-received. In some ways, you wonder if "Nothing is Quite Forgotten ...
- When brown paper wasn’t for parcels - Herald.ie
When brown paper wasn’t for parcelsHerald.ie, Ireland - 8 hours agoNevertheless, he was a fine teacher, even if he seemed to believe that English poetry ended with Matthew Arnold. He hadn't much time for those writers he ...
- FLANAGAN: The joys of gluttony - Sun Chronicle
Did anyone else pause this week to remember Episode 9 of the first season (1955) of "You'll Never Get Rich" (better known as "The Phil Silvers Show" and even better as "Sgt. Bilko.")? That's the one where Fred Gwynne, later immortalized as TV's ...
- Techie Taffy - Hindu
HinduTechie TaffyHindu, India - 1 hour agoHis short stories are unbeatable and Techie became a life long fan as he travelled the info highway looking for more about him. The literature network at ...
- History lesson on tap at writer's festival - Guelph Mercury
Guelph MercuryHistory lesson on tap at writer's festivalGuelph Mercury, Canada - 31 minutes agoThis year, the festival will also premiere the Toronto Poetry Slam Team. The audience will get a glimpse into the world of performance poetry as the team ...
- Envoy Reiterates Iran-Pakistan Close Relations - Fars News Agency
Envoy Reiterates Iran-Pakistan Close RelationsFars News Agency, Iran - 17 hours agoHe said that Allama Iqbal was a great poet-scholar and his poetry was not only a source of inspiration for Pakistani people but the people of Iran as well. ...
- How you can help to save some cherished words from oblivion (Times Online)
Dictionary compilers at Collins have decided that the word list for the forthcoming edition of its largest volume is embrangled with words so obscure that they are linguistic recrement . Such words, they say, must be exuviated abstergently to make room for modern additions that will act as a roborant for the book.
- Pinter at his best with a dark and brilliant comedy - Irish Independent
Irish IndependentPinter at his best with a dark and brilliant comedyIrish Independent, Ireland - 6 hours agoSpooner, poorly dressed, has not been successful in the world's terms, but is a literary figure, editor of a poetry magazine -- a classic loss-maker, ...
- Three authors come to Austin - two of them live and in person - Austin American-Statesman
Three authors come to Austin - two of them live and in personAustin American-Statesman, TX - 1 hour agoWhen he introduced a poem or spoke directly to the assembled, Kaminsky was informational and easy to understand, but when he recited his poetry, ...
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