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- Celebs, politicians, best-selling authors at National Book Festival, Sept. 27 (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)
WASHINGTON -- Salman Rushdie and Tiki Barber are among 70 authors scheduled to participate in the 2008 National Book Festival.
- Nonfiction review: 'Letters of Allen Ginsberg' (San Francisco Chronicle)
The Letters of Allen Ginsberg Edited by Bill Morgan Da Capo; 468 pages; $30 Allen Ginsberg was a hawk. In an unpublished letter written to the New York Times in 1942, when he was a precocious 15-year-old, he defended American involvement in World War II,...
- What's Happening - Fort Bragg-Mendocino Coast Calendar of Events (Mendocino Beacon)
- Mendocino Handweavers Guild, 11 a.m., Mendocino Art Center. 961-5455. - Business Leader Luncheon, noon, North Coast Brewery's Tap Room & Grill. 937-2305.
- Thurston Moore: Sensitive/Lethal - Pitchforkmedia.com
Thurston Moore: Sensitive/LethalPitchforkmedia.com, IL - 8 hours agoHear such sounds done better on Prurient's Black Vase or a dozen Yellow Swans records. Many of the best noise records create their own environment, ...
- Toronto rolls out the red carpet for Aussie premiere - The Australian
Toronto rolls out the red carpet for Aussie premiereThe Australian, Australia - 6 hours agoDisgrace tells the story of a self-absorbed romantic poetry professor in Cape Town who visits his daughter following his resignation over an affair with a ...
- July 2008 - Weekly Standard
CNN's Roland Martin argues that Obama's big mistake was that mentioned "Bush, then McCain" then lobbed the charge that "they" would make racist attacks. Had Obama simply referred to "bloggers, columnists, conservative talk show hosts ... he would ...
- Sister Carrie - Chicago Tribune
Harriet Monroe, who founded Poetry magazine in 1912, gave crucial early exposure to such poets as Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot, and Edgar Lee Masters. Carl Sandburg's "Chicago" appeared in the magazine for the first time in 1914. ( Tribune archive photo ...
- SWAT pioneer: 'Killing, for me . . . has never been difficult' (San Jose Mercury News)
From their kick-in-the-front-door infancy almost 40 years ago to their modern, post-Columbine stratagems, the elite tactical police units widely known as SWAT teams have evolved.
- Greek court allows "lesbians" - Xinhua News Agency
BEIJING, July 24 -- A Greek court has dismissed a request by residents of the Aegean island of Lesbos to ban the use of the word lesbian to describe gay women, according to a court ruling made public on Tuesday. Three residents of Lesbos, the ...
- Kenya: 'We Have Had Enough of Foreign Plays' (AllAfrica.com)
For a very long time, plays that dominated Kenya's theatre scene were all foreign adaptations. Theatre powerhouses such as Mbalamwezi, Phoenix Players and Heartstrings Ensemble barely had a Kenyan production worth writing home about.
- General Reader Forums - Manhattan Mercury
Seeing how my post about the drinking age was recieved so well I thought I'd post another cocktail topic to kick off the weekend. There is a DUI Checklane this weekend. Now before ya'll get wound up about the cost of such a venture, these things are ...
- Sound Symposium Ending Today - VOCM
Sound Symposium Ending TodayVOCM, Canada - 7 hours agoAlso on the schedule is an outdoor poetry reading, an outdoor dance performance, Improv Night at the LSPU hall and the Last Night Party. a full schedule is ...
- School Briefs - Amherst Bulletin
School BriefsAmherst Bulletin, MA - 22 hours agoA workshop/swap for high school age writers will precede regularly scheduled poetry readings at the Jones Library to reach out toward younger writers who ...
- Thieves ransack Richey's flat while former Death Row Scot is in prison - Edinburgh News
FORMER Death Row inmate Kenny Richey has had his flat raided by thieves who broke in while he sat in prison awaiting trial for an alleged assault. The 44-year-old claimed his home in Polwarth was ransacked after police who broke down the door to ...
- Poetry Place - Shawnee News-Star
Although I was told not to play near it. On most given days when no one was around That’s where I would be found. The wooden steering wheel was so large I could hardly reach the grips — My imagination would take me on many fun trips. The ...
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