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- Joyce Carol Oates enters 'tabloid hell' with 'My Sister, My Love' - Citizen
"My Sister, My Love" (Ecco. 562 pages. $25.95), by Joyce Carol Oates: Some of Oates' books feel as if she wrote them as dares to herself. This novel, her 37th, is one of the wildest. Oates sets out to solve a fictionalized version of the JonBenet ...
- In and around Parish (Opelousas Daily World)
ARNAUDVILLE - Frederick L'Ecole Des Arts holds a Brown Bag Club for children from 5 to 12 years old from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. every Saturday at the Town Market Centre in Arnaudville.
- Whiffs of love, regret in exile tale - MiamiHerald.com
Whiffs of love, regret in exile taleMiamiHerald.com, FL - 1 hour agoAlthough the days of sexual free-booting are not over -- indeed she is on the qui vive for her next conquest -- now, apparently, she is at peace, ...
- Plenty to swoon over at the Forward prizes - Guardian Unlimited
One of the striking features of poetry in the UK at present is variety and this applies to the UK's three big poetry prizes, and how they operate, too. They are so various that poets who win one may not even be shortlisted for the others. At one end ...
- Jeni Stepanek watches as statue of son Mattie is unveiled in Rockville - Business Gazette
Business GazetteJeni Stepanek watches as statue of son Mattie is unveiled in RockvilleBusiness Gazette, MD - 2 hours agoHe authored five books of poetry that made the New York Times bestseller list, gaining international attention and the friendship of such notables as Oprah ...
- 'Nick & Norah' a likable dose of disposable romance (New Orleans Times-Picayune)
'Superbad' wannabe is good despite itself.
- Discussing the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam - Juneau Empire (subscription)
Discussing the Rubaiyat of Omar KhayyamJuneau Empire (subscription), AK - 3 hours agoHe wrote about 5000 quatrains, a stanza or poem of four lines, embodying his philosophy of life. In Persian these were called rubaiyat. In 1859, in London, ...
- Poet aided Obama's search for black identity in Hawaii - Los Angeles Daily News
HONOLULU - At key moments in his adolescence, Barack Obama could not turn to a father he hardly knew. Instead, he looked to a left-leaning black journalist and poet for advice on living in a world of black and white. Frank Marshall Davis had his ...
- A call for young writers - Huntington Herald Dispatch
A call for young writersHuntington Herald Dispatch, WV - 2 hours agoCreative Communication is seeking young writers for the 2008 Essay and Poetry Contest. More than $3000 in prizes and awards will be awarded to poets, ...
- Concerts: Hottest music events - Bradenton Herald
Concerts: Hottest music eventsBradenton Herald, United States - 3 hours ago2: Suefest: John Hancock, River Cove Ramblers, Poetry N Lotion, 8 pm, Skipper's Smokehouse; $5 AUG. 3: Soul2Earth, Rebekah Pulley and the Reluctant Prophets ...
- Paint yourself into the Tate - Times Online
From Pablo Picasso to Jackson Pollock, some of the world's most celebrated artists have been inspired by the work of the Surrealists. This exuberant movement, including Salvador DalÃ, Man Ray, Max Ernst and Joan Miró, responded to the ideas of the ...
- Moore Moments - A Reader Shares His Feeling About Discovering Alan ... - Comic Book Bin
Comic Book BinMoore Moments - A Reader Shares His Feeling About Discovering Alan ...Comic Book Bin, Canada - 3 hours agoPoetry performances that have been described as transformative have come from his declaration of magical study, not to mention the stunning work on the ...
- Scholar claims to find medieval Jewish capital - Associated Press
MOSCOW (AP) -- A Russian archaeologist says he has found the lost capital of the Khazars, a powerful nation that adopted Judaism as its official religion more than 1,000 years ago, only to disappear leaving little trace of its culture. Dmitry ...
- Long Island Calendar of Events - New York Times
Long Island Calendar of EventsNew York Times, United States - 4 hours agoEAST HAMPTON Guild Hall Grace Schulman reads from “The Broken String,†her newest poetry collection. Introduction by the poet Philip Schultz. Aug. ...
- New projects are Pussycats' meow (Hattiesburg American)
NEW YORK - The Pussycat Dolls may want to rule the world, but relax, ladies: They have no interest in stealing your men.
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