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- Stemming flow of literary heritage across the pond (Guardian Unlimited)
The novelist Jim Crace looks remarkably chipper for a man of 62 who has just travelled through several time zones on his way home from California.
- On the eternal quest for meaning and knowledge - Mason City Globe Gazette
On the eternal quest for meaning and knowledgeMason City Globe Gazette, IA - 22 minutes agoHe got a preacher’s license as a teen, earned his bachelor’s degree in philosophy from Simpson College and attended Garrett Biblical Institute in Evanston, ...
- Booze Hound - Doraku - Miami New Times
Miami New TimesBooze Hound - DorakuMiami New Times, FL - 12 hours agoAll three drinks are like warm, homemade, chicken soup – good for the soul and as deserving as teenagers of their own book of badly written poetry and ...
- Live alone and like it (Poughkeepsie Journal)
"The chances are that at some time in your life, possibly only now and then between husbands, you will find yourself settling down to a solitary existence," wrote Vogue scribe Marjorie Hillis in the 1936 book "Live Alone and Like It."
- A poet's Yorkshire retreat - The Independent
Adrian Mourby lets himself into the house where Yorkshire's most celebrated poet was born, now a holiday cottage-cum-writer's retreat – and hopes for inspiration. Iovershot at first, missing the turn into Zion Terrace entirely and zooming up past ...
- Dead Palestinian poet's words alive on UK stage - Reuters UK
EDINBURGH (Reuters) - The words of Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish have come poignantly to life on an Edinburgh Festival stage a week after his death following heart surgery in a U.S. hospital. Ironically the play Jidariyya (Mural) - written eight ...
- Kathleen Parker: One nation under English is a must - State Journal-Register
WASHINGTON — La cucaracha, la cucaracha, ya no puede caminar. La cucaracha, la cuca ... Oh, perdon . I was just tuning up for an interview with Baracko Obama and Juan McCain . Juan y Baracko have been busy lately wooing los que hablan espanol ...
- From land to water - how modern architects learnt to love the bridge (Guardian Unlimited)
What makes a great city? One part of any definition almost certainly includes water. And where you have water, human ingenuity insists on spanning it. So, great cities always have bridges and tunnels. It's hilarious, but telling, that Manhattanites stigmatise outsiders as 'bridge and tunnel folk'.
- How Janelle Monáe charmed Diddy - Creative Loafing Atlanta
How Janelle Monáe charmed DiddyCreative Loafing Atlanta, GA - 5 hours agoThe eccentric collective works out of a house in a posh enclave of African-American-owned homes in south Fulton County — an unexpected home base for an ...
- Human pincushion welcomes Olympics with head of flags - Reuters South Africa
Human pincushion welcomes Olympics with head of flagsReuters South Africa, South Africa - 12 hours agoBEIJING, July 10 (Reuters Life!) - Wen Shengchu wanted to welcome Olympic visitors from around the world to China, so he decided to set up over 200 ...
- Current Issue: (Gateway)
The job and housing markets may be in a slump, but one local exchange keeps expanding. Over the past year, Omaha's shopping has exploded with chain stores that the area has never seen before with several areas around town receiving a piece of the action.
- This week a calendar for the bibliophile - The Times-Picayune - NOLA.com
The Times-Picayune - NOLA.comThis week a calendar for the bibliophileThe Times-Picayune - NOLA.com, LA - 2 hours agoThe Greater New Orleans Fleur de Lis Chapter of the Louisiana State Poetry Society meets Saturday, 2-4 pm, at the Metairie Library, 2350 Metairie Road. ...
- The "It" List: A trendier guide to living (The News-Press)
• Rent it: "Persepolis" on DVD. Marjane Satrapi's animated adaptation of her graphic memoir was nominated for an Oscar and won a slew of other awards.
- Art exhibits (The Hazleton Standard-Speaker)
Through today – Ninth annual Quilt Odyssey, exhibiting the finest the quilt world has to offer in both traditional and modern quilting, Hershey Lodge & Convention Center, Hershey, featuring more than 80 merchants offering everything for the quilter, including fabric, threads and supplies of all kinds, patterns, books and kits; 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.; (717) 423-5148 or www.quiltodyssey.com.
- Vijay Tendulkar (1928-2008), acknowledged as modern India’s finest ... - Frontline
“Death is the most interesting happening in life, because no one quite knows what it means to undergo the experience,” he once said. Later he wrote to a friend, “I want to live the moment of my death and die as I feel it in my body.” The wish ...
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