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- Galgut delivers the goods (Mail and Guardian)
The Impostor Damon Galgut (Penguin) Jane Rosenthal Damon Galgut's last novel, The Good Doctor , was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2003 and won the Commonwealth Writer's Prize.His new novel, easily as good, is set in some nameless dorp within easy reach of Port Elizabeth, which conforms to the usual pattern of such places with a farmer's co-op and a coloured/black woongebied (location).
- Librarians promote reading in summer - Alexandria Town Talk
Librarians promote reading in summerAlexandria Town Talk, LA - 8 hours agoTerry had pulled a poetry book off the shelf. "I like to read," he said. "I plan to read five books today." Jailyn Simmons, 7, was reading "It's Halloween, ...
- Indian Poets Writing in English - The Daily Star
The Daily StarIndian Poets Writing in EnglishThe Daily Star, Bangladesh - 22 minutes agoBut let's not quibble: it's a welcome event to see a publisher put money and time into publishing a poetry volume. Jeet Thayil, himself a poet, ...
- Things to Go and Do - like join the Hoot (Hampton Union)
The 2008-2009 Poetry Hoot season with the Portsmouth Poet Laureate Program begins at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 3 at Café Espresso, 738 Islington St., (Plaza 800) Portsmouth. Featured readers will be Kate Aset and Hugh Hennedy. At 8 p.m. an open mic will be...
- Happy Anniversary UUFC - Free Times
Free TimesHappy Anniversary UUFCFree Times, SC - Sep 10, 2008But Friedman’s music will do that — it’s equal parts hillbilly country stomp and Leonard Cohen poetry, demanding the listener pay as much attention to ...
- Castleton student to present one-man show - Burlington Free Press
CASTLETON -- Castleon State College student Ken Holmes will present a one-man show at 7 p.m., Sept. 26, in the college's Old Chapel. Ken Holmes will perform a dramatic reading of his new one-man show, “Talking Aloud Alone.†The event is part of ...
- Cameroon: Homage and Courtship (Romantic Stirrings of a Young Man) - AllAfrica.com
Cameroon: Homage and Courtship (Romantic Stirrings of a Young Man)AllAfrica.com, Washington - 22 minutes agoThe poems in the first part pay homage to icons and beacons at the family and community levels, to places and to significant milestones in the poet's ...
- Forde: Bolt gives Games its second - abc11tv.com
Forde: Bolt gives Games its secondabc11tv.com, NC - 3 hours ago"He's poetry in motion." He's silliness at rest. In a sport rife with preening prima donnas, Bolt has taken posturing to a new level before, ...
- An ode to Joy Division, where Wordsworth met punk (The Globe and Mail)
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- Literary renaissance of national import in tiny Point Reyes - Marin Independent Journal
Where can you perch on a bale of hay in a feed barn and listen to a reading by former U.S. Poet Laureate Robert Hass, winner of the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for poetry?
- Waiting to see where God calls her to serve (Ellwood City Ledger)
FRANKLIN TWP. - Lorrie Ghering is not only in the play 'Subject to Change,' her life is subject to change, too.
- Ensemble Theatre's production is likely the finest of the season - Houston Chronicle
Roosevelt Hicks (played by Broderick Jones), left, and Harmond Wilks (played by Benjamin Cain Jr.) star in Ensemble Theatre's Houston premiere of August Wilson's Radio Golf. ''I just want these kids to know what it feels like to hit a golf ball ...
- Missionary to be honored at dinner (Erie Times-News)
Mother Mary Beth "Betty" Kennedy has wrapped her world in love. That world has included helping students in need of immunizations or a nurturing educational environment, and providing for families and individuals here and overseas who are hungry or lack shelter.
- Collective instinct - Financial Times
The author of Collections of Nothing , William Davies King, is a professor at the University of California at Santa Barbara (just a few miles from that exotic collector of exotic animals, Michael Jackson). King’s book opens, glumly: “On a hot ...
- Local poet Gary Fincke publishes his 10th book (The Daily Item)
SELINSGROVE -- Local poet Gary Fincke has a talent for making the unfamiliar feel like home. Fincke tunes all of his keen senses on and doesn't ever shut them off in his newly-released full-length book of poetry, "The Fire Landscape."
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