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- Louise Erdrich: Secrets in the Indian file - The Independent
Her acclaimed fiction remembers the drama and tragedy of the Native American past. Louise Erdrich's latest novel, she tells John Freeman, is about memory itself Of all the fictional hamlets American writers have planted, from William Faulkner's ...
- Obituaries in the news (The Charlotte Observer)
Eugenio Montejo CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) - Eugenio Montejo, a Venezuelan poet and essayist who won the 2004 Octavio Paz prize, died Thursday. He was 70. The poet's publishing house said he died of natural causes. Montejo's poetry is known for its rich texture and was published in numerous books in Spanish. His work also reached a wider audience thanks to the 2003 film "21 Grams" by Mexican ...
- Want to take a city's pulse? Head for the graveyard - Guardian Unlimited
Anyone who has read of Pip's terrifying encounter with Magwitch in Great Expectations will be aware of the elemental power of graveyards. And anyone who has heard Hamlet contemplate Yorick's skull ('Here hung those lips that I have kissed I know not ...
- Robert Lewis Shayon; elevated stature of radio; 95 (San Diego Union-Tribune)
Robert Lewis Shayon, who wrote and produced groundbreaking radio programs in the 1940s, including the “You Are There” series for CBS, and who later became a longtime television critic for The Saturday Review and an Ivy League professor – all without a college education of his own – died June 28 at his home in Frankfort, Ky. He was 95.
- Dick Martin, half of "Laugh-in" comedy team, dies (The Pantagraph)
LOS ANGELES -- Dick Martin, the zany half of the comedy team whose "Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In" took television by storm in the 1960s, making stars of Goldie Hawn and Lily Tomlin and creating such national catch-phrases as "Sock it to me!" has died. He was 86.
- How and Why Tony Soprano Died - Gawker
GawkerHow and Why Tony Soprano DiedGawker, NY - 2 hours agoNo, not Philip Larkin's poetry, the last frame of the last episode of the HBO mafia drama The Sopranos. Some enterprising blogger went all Warren Commission ...
- Game on! Residents turn yards into gaming destinations (Las Cruces Sun-News)
LAS CRUCES — Judy and Paul Finch have turned their spacious downtown Las Cruces backyard into a game lovers' wonderland.
- Captivating Art from Inside (Time Magazine)
A new London show, Captivated: The Art of the Interned , is a quietly damning indictment of Britain's treatment of post 9/11 terror suspects
- Oceano’s Great American Melodrama presents two summer plays ... - San Luis Obispo Tribune
Oceano’s Great American Melodrama presents two summer plays ...San Luis Obispo Tribune, CA - 3 hours ago“It still has a lot of wit and poetry to it,” the artistic director said. Suzy King plays the sweet nursemaid, Luca. The cast also features Hayley Galbraith ...
- Music! Dancing! Theatre! And much more... - Globe and Mail
Hailed as a leader of the "post-minimalist" generation of American composers, Rouse interweaves global influences and Beatlesque pop with electronic ambience and mesmeric repetition. Coming out of the interdisciplinary downtown New York scene of the ...
- Stephen Burt on Philip K. Dick - London Review of Books (subscription)
Stephen Burt on Philip K. DickLondon Review of Books (subscription), UK - 1 hour ago... The New Directions Anthology of Classical Chinese Poetry. John Whitfield is the author of In the Beat of a Heart: Life, Energy and the Unity of Nature. ...
- Let’s go to camp (Hamilton-Wenham Chronicle)
A listing of local summer camps for kids.
- Human, understand thyself: Scott Mackay interviewed - Crows Nest
Crows NestHuman, understand thyself: Scott Mackay interviewedCrows Nest - 1 hour agoI have since found several examples, primarily in classic poetry, and even some renditions in the sf field. In any case, darkness twenty-four seven, ...
- Saddam feared disease in prison, according to his `diary' - The Associated Press
Saddam feared disease in prison, according to his `diary'The Associated Press - 12 minutes ago"It was a serious sacrifice from me to ask for the first time in my life," he wrote. Al-Hayat also published excerpts from what it described as poetry ...
- New Book Celebrates Poet Maya Angelou (Bristol Herald Courier)
Unless you’re in an abusive relationship that you honestly, truly don’t know how to escape, consider this a book to duck.  TERRI SCHLICHENMEYER has been reading since she was 3 years old and never goes anywhere without a book. She lives on a hill in Wisconsin with two dogs and 11,000 books.ÂÂ
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