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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 ...
- Light on a poet's imagination, and an era - Boston Globe
Brenda Wineapple's "Hawthorne: A Life" (2003) was an incomparable portrait of the man, the writer, and his time. Now, in "White Heat: The Friendship of Emily Dickinson and Thomas Wentworth Higginson" (Knopf, $27.95), Wineapple similarly reanimates ...
- A Quiet Riot at Ballina Arts Centre - Mayo Advertiser
A Quiet Riot at Ballina Arts CentreMayo Advertiser, Ireland - 5 hours agoOn Monday September 8 at 7.30pm, in Ballina Library, Peter Murphy will deliver a workshop on prose, while, simultaneously, John W Sexton will lead a poetry ...
- Eminem's Mom Tells Her Side Of The Story In New Memoir - Mtv.ca
For his entire career, Eminem has reveled in his split personality, toggling between the more sensitive Marshall Mathers (his real name) and his mischievous alter egos, Eminem and Slim Shady. But in her upcoming memoir, "My Son Marshall, My Son ...
- Sir Ben Kingsley Plays Roth’s Concupiscent Kepesh as Cruz Nudes Up - New York Observer
Shwing! Kingsley awaits Cruz’ marvelous breasts. Isabel Coixet’s Elegy , from the screenplay by Nicholas Meyer, based on the short novel The Dying Animal by Philip Roth, enters a metaphysical region between life and death that few films have ever ...
- 'Lesbian' not restricted to Greek island - Globe and Mail
ATHENS — A Greek court has dismissed a request by residents of the Aegean island of Lesbos to ban the use of the word lesbian to describe gay women, according to a court ruling made public on Tuesday. Three residents of Lesbos, the birthplace of ...
- Obama rekindles the moment of JFK - Age
M EMORIES are short; history dims. The conventional wisdom is that Barack Obama is the first candidate to address 75,000 rapturous fans in a sports stadium to accept the nomination of his party to become President of the United States. He was not. To ...
- Concert Mixes Young People With Politics - WCSH-TV
Concert Mixes Young People With PoliticsWCSH-TV, ME - 14 hours agoThe night was a mix of music, poetry, and speeches about local issues. None were partisan-specific, merely a way to set the record straight. ...
- David Blaine: Genius or Joke? (New York Post)
It's dusk in Central Park, and magician David Blaine is hanging upside down, contemplating a career change: "Maybe I will become a schoolteacher after this." Ten hours into his latest endurance stunt, Dive of Death-for which he committed himself to staying in this inverted position, dangling from cables, for three days-he is already hurting. "You know the feeling when you sit on your leg ...
- NEW ACADEMICS: BYTES FROM THE ... - Blunt Magazine
NEW ACADEMICS: BYTES FROM THE ...Blunt Magazine, South Africa - 4 minutes agoBut poetry, can't say I'm too well versed (pun anyone?). I'm a philistine really, sure I can waffle on for hours about life and the universe but it's all ...
- A Poet Without Borders - Texas Observer
Texas ObserverA Poet Without BordersTexas Observer, TX - 1 hour agoJoudah is a 37-year-old Palestinian-American poet whose first volume, The Earth in the Attic, won the 2007 Yale Younger Poet Prize, the most coveted ...
- Exhibits (Times Leader)
Remembering Helen: The Sordoni at 35, an exhibit honoring the memory of Helen Farr Sloan, educator, artist, patron of the arts and long-time benefactor of the Sordoni Art Gallery. Opens today and continues through Oct. 5 at the Sordoni Art Gallery, Stark Learning Center, 150 South River St., Wilkes University, Wilkes-Barre. Open daily, noon to 4:30 p.m. 408-4325.
- Definitions: The proletariat - Online Journal
“Suppose that some great disaster were to sweep ten million families out to sea and leave ’em on a desert island to starve and rot. That would be what you might call an act of God, maybe. But suppose a manner of government that humans have set up ...
- Oregon Book Award finalists announced - Oregonian
A strong field of fiction writers lead the finalists for the 22nd annual Oregon Book Awards, to be awarded Nov. 9 at a ceremony in Portland. Finalists for the Ken Kesey Award for Fiction: K.B. Dixon of Portland for "The Sum of His Syndromes," Molly ...
- Honoring the Ancients - Boise Weekly
Boise WeeklyHonoring the AncientsBoise Weekly, USA - 6 hours agoIn music, poetry and dance, it is almost insulting to be compared with a past master, bringing into question the current artist's originality and innovation ...
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