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- Margaret Atwood: A celebration of Alice Munro (Guardian Unlimited)
In Munro's work, emotions erupt. Preconceptions crumble. Surprises proliferate. Astonishments leap out Lurid crimes, hidden sexual excesses and strange rumours lurk beneath the surface respectability in Alice Munro's short stories. Fellow Canadian Margaret Atwood on how these tales of small-town Ontario elevated Munro to 'international literary sainthood'
- Eritrean Cultural Bonanza Ended - Shaebia
Eritrean Cultural Bonanza EndedShaebia, Eritrea - 11 hours ago... in debating, poetry and short story writing, traditional sports and other competition were awarded prizes by Mr. Saleh Meki, the Minister of Health. ...
- A story of love and books in Bohemian New Orleans (AP via Yahoo! News)
Every morning in this Southern town of big-box stores and Bible readers, the Beat Generation can still be found dissing the system in the form of a 91-year-old woman in a red beret and cowboy boots.
- All Events for 7 Sept 2008 (My Village Balham)
Until 11 Sep 2008 Lavish biopic about 18th century English aristocrat Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire. The Duchess is developing herself to be a significant political power-broker and soon becomes better...
- CAMPOS: What's a university to do? - Rocky Mountain News
CAMPOS: What's a university to do?Rocky Mountain News, CO - 3 hours agoAnd I agree wholeheartedly with Fish that the idea that turning people into competent readers of poetry or history or philosophy will make them better ...
- A bite of Dylan's Big Apple on literary pub crawl (BBC News)
Joining Dylan Thomas's daughter Aeronwy on a tour of the poet's old New York haunts.
- Literacy program connecting students, popular authors - Live 5 News
Literacy program connecting students, popular authorsLive 5 News, SC - 2 hours agoWe let that enter their poetry and let them write about that," said Sanchez. "Each year one of the main projects for LILA at Burke is taking the poems the ...
- Angelou, Lear named for 2008 Marian Anderson Award (AP via Yahoo! News)
TV producer Norman Lear and author Maya Angelou will be the 2008 recipients of the Marian Anderson Award, which honors artists whose leadership benefits humanity.
- Man pleads guilty in SC student bikini strangling (Las Vegas Sun)
Tue, Aug 19, 2008 (12:33 p.m.) A convicted sex offender has admitted he strangled a 20-year-old South Carolina college student, leaving her body in her off-campus apartment with her bikini top still wrapped around her neck.
- The grandeur of blandeur - Boston Globe
IN THE fall, Kay Ryan will become the nation's next poet laureate. She has been called an outsider who writes in clear, Emily Dickinsonian proportions. Ryan has so often been called quiet and private that this has become her public image. But one ...
- A trip to pesto paradise - Thecalifornian.com
When cookbook author and radio host Lynn Rossetto Kaspar writes about pesto in her new book, "The Splendid Table's How to Eat Supper" (2008, Clarkson Potter, $35), a two-paragraph description of pesto morphs into culinary romance bordering on ...
- Writer offered a young Barack Obama advice on life - NWI.com
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 ...
- ‘Local authors are extremely important’ - The National
‘Local authors are extremely important’The National, United Arab Emirates - 41 minutes agoThey have a much stronger tradition of telling stories and reciting poetry here. Encouraging literacy has been one of the driving forces behind the Emirates ...
- Flor y Canto: Celebrating Latino Poetry in San Francisco (New America Media)
Poetry is alive and well in San Francisco, home of the beat generation, and Latino poetry is thriving in its Mission District.
- Literature Enters the Digital Age - Valley Star (subscription)
Literature Enters the Digital AgeValley Star (subscription), CA - 10 hours agoThe magazine, once a paperback printing of students' literary works of fiction and poetry, has now shifted into the digital age via the online publication ...
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