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- Short Takes: Children's Books (The Charlotte Observer)
EVERYBODY BONJOURS! By Leslie Kimmelman and Sarah McMenemy (Knopf, ages 4-8, 40 pages, $16.99) SOMEDAY WHEN MY CAT CAN TALK By Caroline Lazo and Kyrsten Brooker (Schwartz & Wade, ages 4-8, 32 pages, $16.99) Craving a European family vacation but can't afford it? Cheaper option: Two picture books to transport you and the little ones across the pond. "Everybody Bonjours!" follows a ...
- City writer hits jackpot with third novel - Edmonton Journal
EDMONTON - On his website, Edmonton's Thomas Trofimuk describes himself as "writer, gardener and failed Buddhist." Looks like he'll now have to add literary lottery winner to the billing. After publishing his first two novels with small presses ...
- Author keeps readers on hook (Tacoma News Tribune)
For fans of fly-fishing author John Gierach, the wait is over.
- Breaker brings Cleveland metal to Germany - Cleveland Plain Dealer
Cleveland metal band Breaker is heading to Germany later this month, for the big "Bang Your Head Festival." To prepare for the gig, the group has booked a local warm-up show for 8 p.m. Saturday at The Jigsaw Saloon & Stage, 5324 State Road, Parma ...
- Literary Calendar - Charlotte Observer
Literary CalendarCharlotte Observer, NC - 13 hours agoSign up for fiction, screenwriting or poetry. Author Tommy Hays (“The Pleasure Was Mineâ€) will be the keynote speaker. Other workshop leaders include Betsy ...
- Skating to the top (Coeur d'Alene Press)
COEUR d'ALENE -- The first time Scott Stubblefield's mother saw him skate in a competition, her nerves were in a knot.
- How Ignorant Are We? (Middle East Online)
Young Americans today find the news irrelevant. They by many measures know less today than young Americans forty years ago. And their news habits are worse, notes Rick Shenkman .
- BOOK REVIEW: On the dusty road to redemption (The Charlotte Observer)
In terms of literary chutzpah, writing your sophomore novel about a sophomore novelist is the kind of thing that tends to send eyebrows arching skyward. Maybe not as much as titling it "Winner of the National Book Award," as Jincy Willett once did, but still, it's a bold step. But with one move, Leif Enger defangs impending snarkiness with the deftness of a snake handler: He makes his character, ...
- Review: Carla Bruni's new album - Daily Telegraph
The Premiere Dame may have a colourful past, but her music has always been as classically chic and subtly sexy as her Christian Dior wardrobe. The supermodel-turned-chanteuse has been worried that her left-leaning fanbase might desert her now she's ...
- Matters of State: Bildung and Literary-Intellectual Discourse in ... - Fabula
Matters of State: Bildung and Literary-Intellectual Discourse in ...Fabula, France - 13 hours agoThis challenge was met by a multiplicity of discourses, few of which can be decisively told apart: poetry, political economy, cultural criticism, ...
- In the News: July 21 - Wicked Local Orleans
In the News: July 21Wicked Local Orleans, MA - 1 hour agoEmily Dickinson’s exposure to Congregational church music indelibly influenced her poetry, says Noel Tipton, “Making me think of it, for her, ...
- Pythagoras to poetry: Camillo reading at Prairie Lights - UI The Daily Iowan (subscription)
Pythagoras to poetry: Camillo reading at Prairie LightsUI The Daily Iowan (subscription), IA - 39 minutes agoCamillo will read from Death Song for Africa tonight at Prairie Lights, 15 S. Dubuque St. It's his first book, though Camillo's poems and essays have seen ...
- Clergy in the closet - Washington Blade
The connection between sexual identity and Judeo-Christian values is fraught with complexities, which are explored in detail in “The Bishop’s Daughter: A Memoir†by poet Honor Moore. The searing chronicle lays bare the dual life of her father ...
- Sick Days (New York Times)
A poet?s memoir of the rare blood disease that interrupted her life.
- Let's Talk About Sex - Reading Little India
Let's Talk About SexReading Little India, PA - 25 minutes agoIn a very odd manifestation, we sing Hindi film songs or quote poetry to make our feelings known, in rich metaphors with hardly a connection to the heart of ...
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