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- Best-selling author Oates shifts gears - Canton Repository (subscription)
Best-selling author Oates shifts gearsCanton Repository (subscription), OH - 33 minutes agoThe way to handle broken narrators, perhaps, is to try to find poetry in their plain speech. But Oates has already done that — her "Zombie" is a brilliant ...
- Books: "The Good Thief" (The New Yorker)
This striking début novel is an homage to old-fashioned boy’s-own adventure stories, and unfolds like a Robert Louis Stevenson tale retold amid the hardscrabble squalor of Colonial New England. The sheer strangeness of the story is beguiling: a one-handed boy, tainted by his upbringing in a Catholic . . .
- Walkers in St. Paul could trip over a poem - WKBT
Walkers in St. Paul could trip over a poemWKBT, WI - 6 minutes agoSo he organized a city-wide sidewalk poetry contest. It limited the poems to 150 characters or less. Judges selected 20 winners from more than 2000 ...
- Award-winning poet coordinates recycling at CSB - The Record
Award-winning poet coordinates recycling at CSBThe Record, MN - 1 hour agoNow, years later, he has won a $25000 Loft Award from the McKnight Artist Fellowship for Writers, and he has four books of poetry in publication with ...
- William Golding - guardian.co.uk
William Goldingguardian.co.uk, UK - 13 hours agoGolding began writing at seven and published his first volume of poetry before completing his BA. He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1983 (to some ...
- Community: 09.05.08 (Corpus Christi Caller-Times)
Wildlife sculptor Kent Ullberg dedicated his new "Canyon Watch" cougar sculpture Thursday in Los Alamos, N.M.. The dedication is sponsored by the Los Alamos Art in Public Places Board, which visited local galleries and extensively reviewed sculptor portfolios before selecting the local sculptor and his design.
- Hindu-Muslim Family in Queens Chooses Cremation, and Faces Criticism (New York Times)
A family?s decision to cremate their son?s body has become the object of a tug-of-war over religious freedom and obligation in Jackson Heights.
- Is torture an Olympic event? - Salon
Still from "Fire Under the Snow." I didn't watch the reportedly spectacular opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympics, a $43 million production overseen by Chinese master filmmaker (and opera director) Zhang Yimou, although I've read various ...
- Phoenix music critic, ethics - Boston Globe
Boston GlobePhoenix music critic, ethicsBoston Globe, United States - 39 minutes agoThat the Tanglewood fellows would choose to set his poetry to music is a mark of distinction, not a compromise. Narrow minds, of course, ...
- A Labor of Love: Professor Susan Abbotson - RIC The Anchor
A Labor of Love: Professor Susan AbbotsonRIC The Anchor, RI - 11 hours agoCathleen Calbert's collection of poetry, to Prof. Gary Grund's translations from medieval Latin of Renaissance dramas, from Prof. ...
- Kalamazoo Gazette film critic James Sanford talks with the cast of the ... - Kalamazoo Gazette
TORONTO -- No real dentist would ever have Ricky Gervais' teeth, and he knows it. But the star of the British version of "The Office" and HBO's "Extras" isn't ashamed, even though he admitted his far-from-perfect dental work made playing dentist ...
- Photography: Love, hope, exuberance and desire - Miami Herald
''Whether we're born in Buenos Aires, Havana or Madrid, we come into this world with dance in our hearts,'' Isabel Muñoz says. The famous Spanish photographer, known for her intimate images of bodies in motion, is sitting on a lounge chair at the ...
- Mahmoud Darwish, poet of the Palestinians, dies - Reuters
CitizenMahmoud Darwish, poet of the Palestinians, diesReuters - 2 hours agoBy Mohammed Assadi and Ali Sawafta RAMALLAH, West Bank, Aug 9 (Reuters) - Mahmoud Darwish, whose poetry his fellow Palestinians embraced as the voice of ...Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish dies Calgary Heraldall 223 news articles
- SummerNights Fun (and free) ideas - Washington Post
SummerNights Fun (and free) ideasWashington Post, United States - 3 hours agoIt closed in 1980, but organizers hope to reopen it in 2010 in time for its 100th birthday. In the theater's honor, the Poetry Festival presents ...
- Sally Paxson Davis, 68, the Academy of Vocal Arts chair - Philadelphia Daily News
Sally Paxson Davis, 68, of Radnor, chairwoman of the Academy of Vocal Arts, died of leukemia July 4 at Waverly Heights in Gladwyne. Mrs. Davis had led the board of the academy, a tuition-free opera training school in Philadelphia, since 2001. During ...
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