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- Reviews of 14 shows at the Boulder International Fringe Festival - Daily Camera
Reviews of 14 shows at the Boulder International Fringe FestivalDaily Camera, CO - 37 minutes agoThe second is a tight little encounter between an Italian cabbie and a skeptical American businessman. The third and most ambitious piece finds a young ...
- Melbourne hooks the books - The Age
Melbourne hooks the booksThe Age, Australia - 3 hours ago... including the Melbourne Writers Festival, the Victorian Writers Centre, the Emerging Writers Festival and the Australian Poetry Centre. Continued...
- Writing contest calling for submissions - The Observer
If beauty is in the eyes of the beholder, then four unique perspectives could make this year’s Lawrence House writing contest tough to win. Judges for the contest, which focusses on bringing out the positive aspects of the community, are ...
- If I Did It publisher commits to book about Prophet Muhammad - CBC News
Author Sherry Jones's debut novel, The Jewel of Medina, turned out to be too controversial for Random House, but other publishers have now stepped forward. (James Snook/Associated Press) Beaufort Books, the New York publisher behind O.J. Simpson's ...
- Nailing books, saving words - Tehelka
Nailing books, saving wordsTehelka, India - 19 hours agoHe wrote his poetry under the name Wamaq Saleem. “There’s always a wound in my father that his real life did not happen. He wanted to be Wamaq Saleem. ...
- Bruce Lee fan club displays memorabilia - Vindicator
HONG KONG — Bruce Lee fans are marking the 35th anniversary of his death with an exhibit featuring movie posters, magazine covers and books about the action star. Also among the 800 items on display are letters written by Lee that detail his life ...
- Ha Jin wants to visit China - Forbes
On a trip that's put him the closest to his homeland in 23 years, Chinese-American author Ha Jin says he wants to visit China but expressed frustration with censorship of his books. The 52-year-old National Book Award winner told The Associated Press ...
- Writers take their craft to new levels - Argonaut
Writers take their craft to new levelsArgonaut, ID - 1 hour agoProse and poetry writers know words are the only way to go. With creative flair, they let their pens fly, crafting the tales that make us laugh, ...
- New in Paperback: A travel writer's spell-binding tale - Cleveland Plain Dealer
Colin Thubron spent eight months on foot and aboard bus, train, hired car and donkey cart to follow in the Shadow of the Silk Road (Harper Perennial, 344 pp., $15.95). His 7,000 miles, moving east to west, took him through some of the most remote ...
- MOVIES Falling Short of a Miracle Lee's Message Fails to Transcend ... - RedOrbit
MOVIES Falling Short of a Miracle Lee's Message Fails to Transcend ...RedOrbit, TX - 6 hours agoBut Lee's influences are less tangible: the humanism of neo- realism, the poetry of magic realism and the power of film to celebrate the human spirit, ...
- Obama Confirms Relationship With Red Mentor - FOXBusiness
Obama Confirms Relationship With Red MentorFOXBusiness - 2 hours agoInstead, Kincaid notes, the report attempts to play down instances in which Obama soaks up Davis's anti-American thoughts and pro-communist "poetry. ...
- Raising Bob Costas: Is Memorizing Sports Trivia Good for the Brain? - Wall Street Journal
Now I know how Marv Albert's parents must have felt. Shooting hoops behind our house recently, my 9-year-old suggested that we pretend to be great basketball teams from the past. "I'll be the 1985-1986 Celtics," he said, "and you can be the '71-'72 ...
- A Colonial Oasis in Upper Manhattan (The New York Sun)
When Lucinda Martinez-Desir was a young girl growing up in Washington Heights, she'd often sit on the steps leading up to Sylvan Terrace and write poetry. Almost two decades later, she returned, moving into one of the cobblestone street's famed Colonial row houses. A tucked-away, car-free block on 161st Street between St. Nicholas Avenue and Jumel Terrace, Sylvan Terrace is lined with street ...
- Authors in the area (The Charlotte Observer)
Renowned poet Galway Kinnell, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and a National Book Award, speaks at Hickory's Lenoir-Rhyne University, 8 p.m. Thursday in the Belk Centrum. Kinnell's 2006 poetry collection, “Strong Is Your Hold,” includes his celebrated long poem about the collapse of the World Trade Center, “When the Towers Fell.” His talk is free and open to the public.
- Kaplan and Newsweek Award $15000 to Winners of the 14th Annual "My ... - StreetInsider.com (subscription)
Kaplan and Newsweek Award $15000 to Winners of the 14th Annual "My ...StreetInsider.com (subscription), MI - Jul 31, 2008In her winning essay, "Only Two Hands," Castle Rock, Colorado teen Katy Hoyer describes how the soothing sounds of her piano playing may have saved the life ...
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