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- Joyce Carol Oates enters 'tabloid hell' (The Courier News)
Some of Joyce Carol Oates' books feel as if she wrote them as dares to herself. This novel, her 37th, is one of the wildest. Oates sets out to solve a fictionalized version of the JonBenet Ramsey murder, with skating prodigy "Bliss" Rampike replacing the real-life child beauty pageant contestant. The resolution she imagines is heartrending, grotesque and totally believable. And it's only the ...
- Constant light found in Hall's poems (Portsmouth Herald)
Fumbling in the Light
- Quilt and art benefit local clubs - KeepMEcurrent.com
Quilt and art benefit local clubsKeepMEcurrent.com, ME - 14 hours agoThe exhibit includes paintings, drawings, photographs, poetry and prose, as well as portraits by professional photographer David Segre, whose work is now ...
- Sleepy spectators greet midnight arrival of circus elephants to Van ... - MLive.com
Press Photo/T.J. Hamilton Elephants lead the rest of the circus animals from the train to Van Andel Arena around midnight. GRAND RAPIDS -- Where were the glow-stick vendors when the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus needed them? About 100 ...
- Best bets for the weekend (Seattle Times)
Our summer keeps bouncing all over the weather map. So don't stop listening to the forecast, if you care. Otherwise, just kick back and...
- Combat rock - Guardian Unlimited
A gleaming black-and-white Fender Stratocaster is an unusual item to find in a soldier's kit bag, but for Sergeant John Dobbins it is one of his most treasured possessions. This isn't just any shop-bought axe. Dobbins built his guitar from scratch ...
- It Had to Happen - fairfieldweekly.com
fairfieldweekly.comIt Had to Happenfairfieldweekly.com, CT - 27 minutes agoIt seems the writer-director Andrew Fleming (Dick) and co-writer Pam Brady ("South Park") spent more time thinking up funny names for their characters than ...
- Sunday Journal: Trip to the morgue scares teen silly - St. Petersburg Times
One of my varied outside duties while working as a 16-year-old copy boy at our local newspaper was the trip to the city morgue to collect the obits and return them to the city editor for the next day's page. I hated making this trip. The morgue was ...
- Events for Monday in New York - New York Daily News
Events for Monday in New YorkNew York Daily News, NY - 6 hours agoComedians reveal their teen angst from the '90s in a cringe-worthy performance of "Mortified" at Comix. The grassroots comedy collective spent years digging ...
- Honor America Days events - Romesentinel.com
Honor America Days with special sales throughout Rome. Visit www.ShopRomeFirst.com or call 337-1700. Today, July 29: • 2:30 p.m., Family Film Festival at Jervis Public Library, 613 N. Washington St. Popcorn and movie for all ages. Information 336 ...
- Dying, debt-ridden Singapore founder - Straits Times
Dying, debt-ridden Singapore founderStraits Times, Singapore - 2 hours agoWritten by playwright Ng Yi-Sheng, the 'surreal biography' of Raffles has been turned into an 80-minute production featuring a poetry-spouting Rafflesia ...
- A selection of the worst song lyrics of all time - News.com.au
EVEN the best songwriters have off days - here's just selection of some truly awful lyrics. Plus, enter our poll to see if you agree on the worst songline ever. ‘‘I'm afraid of the dark, especially when I'm in the park, when there's no one else ...
- Scots author hits back at Paxman over attack on Burns’s poetry - Herald
A leading Scottish author, angered by Jeremy Paxman's dismissal of Burns as a "king of sentimental doggerel", yesterday proposed a novel revenge against the controversial broadcaster. Andrew O'Hagan, who was raised in Ayrshire, suggested that the ...
- Trouble and Honey by Jilly Dybka - Bookslut
Trouble and Honey by Jilly DybkaBookslut, IL - 1 hour agoThere are prose-poems and poems in columns that can be read both across and down. There’s even some free verse. Dybka embraces and often acknowledges her ...
- Death Race - Student Direct
Death RaceStudent Direct, UK - 7 hours agoA remake of a universally panned B-movie, Death Race sets the bar low and then manages to limbo underneath it. Like the Grindhouse double feature of Planet ...
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