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- Naipaul’s compass - Saudi Gazette
Ways of Looking and Feeling: An Essay in Five Parts. By V. S. Naipaul. 189 pp. Alfred A. Knopf. $24.95. ALL my life,” V. S. Naipaul writes in the introduction to “A Writer’s People,” his dense, dry, frustrating new memoir, “I have had to ...
- Life's journeys shared by poet and novelist (The Reporter)
A poet and memoirist may seem an unlikely combination, but not in the case of Marcia Ivans and Ethel Lee-Miller who will appear at Bernardsville Public Library to speak about their books 7 p.m. Tuesday, July 29.
- Old-fashioned timers are new-styled art in our gardens - Moncton ThisWeek
Old-fashioned timers are new-styled art in our gardensMoncton ThisWeek, Canada - 23 minutes ago... carry cheerful little mottos like "I count only the sunny hours," but ancient sundials had deeper thoughts and poetry and philosophy carved into them. ...
- Hundreds impressed with offerings at Spring Spectacular - Florida Times-Union
Hundreds impressed with offerings at Spring SpectacularFlorida Times-Union, FL - 3 hours agoGeiger said she hopes everyone involved had a fun evening with the opportunity to celebrate their child's work, including student performances, ...
- A few tomes for your summer reading list featuring man's best friends - New York Daily News
Summer is sizzling. Here are a few reading picks perfect for a dog-day afternoon. "Broadway Barks," by Bernadette Peters , illustrated by Liz Murphy . (Blue Apple Books, $17.95). In her first book, actress and animal advocate Bernadette Peters tells ...
- Wrestling Hamlet - Age
Playing the dark prince has scared Brendan Cowell sober. The workaholic acto-writer-director discusses his own demons with Elissa Blake. Brendan Cowell has a recurring nightmare in which he's standing on stage half-naked. Looking down into the ...
- Big City: An Online Swap Meet Where Ids and Superegos Mingle (New York Times)
Freecyle.org, a Web site where people offer their unwanted goods free of charge and others request goods they’d like to own free of charge, is popular in Brooklyn.
- 'I don't want to be laureate' (Guardian Unlimited)
News: Wendy Cope calls the 400-year-old post - held by Ben Jonson, William Wordsworth and John Betjeman - 'ridiculous' and 'archaic'
- North Tampa calendar - Tampabay.com
North Tampa calendarTampabay.com, FL - 5 hours agoTemple Terrace: The Teen Poetry contest is at 6:30 pm July 31 at the Temple Terrace Library, 202 Bullard Parkway. The theme is "Created Equal" and entries ...
- Alesia: Madison beer fest soaking up popularity - Wisconsin State Journal
It's too popular. On a recent Sunday morning, Great Taste sold all of its 5,000 tickets in seemingly the time it takes to pour a tap beer. Despite limiting sales to in-person sites and mail order — nothing online — each $35 ticket was sold within ...
- July 17 Lifestyle Calendar - Bangor Daily News
- "Folk Art from the Collections of the Maine State Museum," through Oct. 11, Maine State Museum, 83 State House Station; 287-2301. - "Todd Webb: Joy Without Measure," "Sean Beavers" and "Staff Selects: Works from the Permanent Collection ...
- Book Folks: Bausch to sign WWII novel (Memphis Commercial Appeal)
Prolific author Richard Bausch will read from and sign his new novel "Peace" (Alfred A. Knopf, $20) twice this week, in Memphis and in Oxford, Miss. Bausch holds the Moss Chair of Excellence in the English Department at the University of Memphis, where he teaches fiction writing. "Peace" -- a short novel about World War II that is anything but peaceful -- is Bausch's 11th novel. Others include ...
- Zimbabwe: Mairosi's Poem Published in Che in Verse (AllAfrica.com)
ZIMBABWEAN poet and performer Cosmas Mairosi recently scored a first by becoming the only Zimbabwean to have his poem -- Bayethe Latin Warrior -- published in Che in Verse, an international poetry anthology dedicated to the life and works of the late Latin American revolutionary, Ernesto Che Guevara.
- Critics: are we just loudmouths? - guardian.co.uk
guardian.co.ukCritics: are we just loudmouths?guardian.co.uk, UK - 1 hour agoThe reason the views of, say, TS Eliot on poetry were once taken so seriously (apart from the fact that when he wrote books such as The Use of Poetry and ...
- Lynchburg icon, poet Anne Spencer’s works turned over to UVa (The News & Advance)
Technically, the University of Virginia took formal possession Monday morning of the collected papers of poet and Lynchburg icon Anne Spencer.
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