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- Jack Kerouac's Colorado Road (Aspen Daily News)
For most of you, Jack Kerouac is the guy who wrote "On the Road" - a novel you read as a teenager that pumped you up for road-tripping and left you wondering about Benzedrine.
- Garage-bound scribe taps vivid past (The Columbus Dispatch)
SAG HARBOR, N.Y. -- Like its predecessors, the latest Alan Furst novel, The Spies of Warsaw , reads as if it were written in a Paris cafe -- where men with pencil-thin mustaches while away rainy winter afternoons, puffing on Balkan Sobranie cigarettes and talking about the old days.
- Poetry Night internship looking for more applicants - The California Aggie Online
Poetry Night internship looking for more applicantsThe California Aggie Online, CA - 44 minutes ago"We really do this out of the love of poetry and a desire to reach out to the community and give poets recognition - we don't take in any salary," Jones ...
- A year after raid, lives still on hold - Portland Tribune
Abdias Cortéz and others snared by the June 2007 immigration raid at Portland’s Fresh Del Monte produce plant call themselves “women of the bracelet,” after the electronic monitoring devices they wore during their subsequent house arrest. A ...
- Alice and Rebecca Walker Clash: Do Feminist Mothers Have to Choose ... - AlterNet
Alice and Rebecca Walker Clash: Do Feminist Mothers Have to Choose ...AlterNet, CA - 18 minutes agois overly romantic and self-sacrificing. I sympathize with Rebecca's deep pain over her unsatisfying childhood. Whatever the factual details surrounding her ...
- Girlz on the hood - guardian.co.uk
guardian.co.ukGirlz on the hoodguardian.co.uk, UK - 1 hour agoThe artist is also an avid collector of books - from Nabokov to pulp, hardboiled crime to Beat poetry - and, in the words of Jack Bankowsky, the Artforum ...
- Giving the Holocaust a Creative Voice - Jewish Exponent
The Moore College of Art in Philadelphia has a provocative exhibit on display in its galleries through June 16. Thirty works by teenage artists representing 21 public, private and parochial schools throughout the Greater Philadelphia area honor the ...
- Budding authors can enter Eden Mills Writers Festival contests - Caledon Enterprise
Budding authors can enter Eden Mills Writers Festival contestsCaledon Enterprise, Canada - 27 minutes agoThe theme for the Ishar Singh Poetry Contest this year is “Wandering and Wondering in the Natural World,” with prizes presented by the Eden Mills Writers’ ...
- Contest gives 'em gas (Toronto Sun)
Suffering folks empty their tanks about the depths they will sink to for a free fix
- "WTF" of the day: Wii sex game (Salon.com)
Nintendo's popular party console simulates the ultimate party activity.
- Vilhelm Hammershøi at the Royal Academy: the poetry of silence (14 pictures) (Guardian Unlimited)
Vilhelm Hammershøi, Portrait of a Young Girl, 1885 (oil on canvas).
- Why Danielle Steel is 'critic-proof' - CNN International
Why Danielle Steel is 'critic-proof'CNN International - 13 hours agoHer mini-empire also includes 15 children's books, multiple adaptations for TV or DVDs, a volume of poetry and even a perfume from Elizabeth Arden. ...
- Twins shine at Carey - Hattiesburg American
Making people understand the need for water in Africa brings Chiwonesa Tinago, 21, to her feet with a passionate but reasoned plea. "Water is very important. You can just turn on a faucet here and get water and not think about it. Remember what it ...
- Art is life for advocate and author Nina Gibans - Cleveland Jewish News
From floor to ceiling, art lines the walls of Nina and Jim Gibans’s spacious Shaker Square condominium. And each piece tells a story, says arts scholar, author and advocate Nina Freedlander Gibans, 76, who recently received a “Judson Smart Living ...
- Relationships "Not quite what I was planning" - Age
Memoirs for minimalists ... the New York Times surprise bestseller. A few words can distill lifetimes. As we are about to show. This report's in six-word phrases. And a new book proves that: Not Quite What I Was Planning . It's a collection of six ...
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