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- Big returns from not-for-profit - Guardian Blogs
Olivier Rolin's Hotel Crystal is the kind of novel that gives sales and marketing people night sweats. Translated from the French, it's a fragmentary novel: a patchwork of minute descriptions of hotel rooms, mixed with a chronologically confused half ...
- Moab Fest Features Pianist-Composer - RedOrbit
Moab Fest Features Pianist-ComposerRedOrbit, TX - 2 minutes agoAmong these commissions is one by a consortium of 10 orchestras for a large choral symphony based on Walt Whitman's poetry. And along with everything else ...
- Free Laughs - Hartford Advocate
Hartford AdvocateFree LaughsHartford Advocate, CT - 17 hours agoThey're free, on a first-come, first-served basis. Sept. 22, 7 pm, The Hartford Stage, 50 Church St., Hartford, (860) 527-5151, hartfordstage.org.
- The Basics Of Basia Balut - Chattanooga Pulse
The Basics Of Basia BalutChattanooga Pulse, USA - 51 minutes agoBB: They constantly change, but I always come back to poetry. Emily Dickinson, Leonard Cohen, writers, books, everyday life, interactions, folk music, ...
- St. Gregory's sets lecture by cancer survivor - NewsOK.com
St. Gregory's sets lecture by cancer survivorNewsOK.com, OK - 56 minutes agoHis book and poetry reflect his fight against cancer with honesty and humor. He has written for Oklahoma Today and is the founding member of Oklahoma Film ...
- British espionage writer John le Carré says he considered defecting - Dallas Morning News
British espionage writer John le Carré says he considered defectingDallas Morning News, TX - 1 hour agoThe Associated Press Britain's Poetry Archive has added rare audio recordings of 14 major American poets of the 20th century, including Theodore Roethke, ...
- 'Goldengrove' follows grief-stricken teenager (Akron Beacon Journal)
So much seems tragic when we're teenagers: our appeal — or rather, the lack thereof — to the opposite sex; our embarrassing parents; a spectacularly bad haircut. Nico, the 13-year-old protagonist of Francine Prose's new novel, experiences all that through the prism of true tragedy: the death of her golden, talented older sister, Margaret.
- Outrage at McCain--a loser strategy. - Slate
a) MSM outrage doesn't sway voters anymore. It didn't even back in 1988, when the press tried to make a stink about George H.W. Bush's use of "flag factories," etc. After this year's failed MSM Palin assault, it certainly won't work; b) When Dems get ...
- Letters to the Telegraph - Telegraph.co.uk
Letters to the TelegraphTelegraph.co.uk, United Kingdom - 4 hours agoHe thought the only solution to the conundrum of Pound’s politics and poetry was to publish his verse in a single volume together with these talks from Rome ...
- Foundations pick up slack for schools (Modesto Bee)
Ruth Ramsay transformed her third-grade classroom into a hip and trendy cafe for just one evening. Her students at La Rosa Elementary School in Ceres shared the spotlight, reading poetry they wrote for friends and family at an open-microphone coffeehouse.
- Lusher students win literary competition - The Times-Picayune - NOLA.com
Lusher students win literary competitionThe Times-Picayune - NOLA.com, LA - 1 hour agoTwo of these young writers, Dalton Bender and Evan Eyer, also were semifinalists for the Marble Faun Award in poetry, which is open to writers of all ages. ...
- Five things to do today - Aug 18 - Time Out Chicago
Five things to do today - Aug 18Time Out Chicago, IL - 22 minutes agoHBO Def Poetry Jam vets Tim Stafford and Joel Chmara host one of the city’s longest-running (and most entertaining) poetry slams. 8pm. ...
- He's San Francisco's pugilistic poet, for better or verse - Los Angeles Times
August Kleinzahler, the bad boy of American poetry, sits in a hillside park near his home in San Francisco. He dismisses university writing programs as “multimillion-dollar Ponzi schemes†in which Volvo-driving poet-professors are too fearful of ...
- Hundreds turn out for Black Family Day - Record
STOCKTON - Aside from live music, craft booths and bounce houses, visitors to Stockton's 31st annual Black Family Day on Monday had a chance to come face to face with elite black writers of Northern California. Among them, Terry A. O'Neal, Stockton ...
- Bridging the Gap - Modesto Bee
Bridging the GapModesto Bee, CA - 20 minutes agoSo, the 17-year-old threw away her poetry collection and hunkered down in her basic classes to be accepted again. "Our dream for a higher education brought ...
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