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- Diversions for August 7, 2008 (The Gleaner)
THE LITTLE OLD DAM DIXIELAND BAND — 7 p.m., Central Library, 200 SE King Blvd. (free). BADGETT PLAYHOUSE — Grand Rivers, Ky., "Cotton Patch Gospel," 7 p.m. today and Aug. 14, 21 and 28; 2 p.m. Sunday and Aug. 17, 24 and 31; "Variety!
- Jamey Johnson's new CD 'bare-knuckled, barroom poetry': review - Jam! Showbiz
Jamey Johnson's "That Lonesome Song" delivers a salt-of-the-earth antidote for those who consider contemporary country music too slick and sentimental. His bare-knuckled, barroom poetry takes the point of view of hard-bitten losers and boozers, and ...
- Lily Tuck's 'Life of Elsa Morante' - International Herald Tribune
Elsa Morante is among those many writers who enjoy fame at home and have little impact abroad. Twenty-three years after her death, she is still remembered in Italy, but elsewhere in Europe, and certainly in the United States, she is known - if at all ...
- Reading for Life - Waterford Today
Reading for LifeWaterford Today, Ireland - 13 hours agoMy own conclusion is, that great literature and poetry contains the wisdom of the ages and therefore the answers to many questions, often unasked ones, ...
- Classical Music/Opera Listings (New York Times)
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- After decades, slain Spanish poet may be reburied - International Herald Tribune
VIZNAR, Spain : The tranquil, pine-carpeted hills in this patch of southern Spain hold awful secrets. Now, one of them has been thrust into the spotlight of a still-painful accounting of atrocities committed in the Spanish Civil War. The dispute has ...
- Blood sport: Exhibit reveals the secret lives of a dreaded predator - Hamilton-Wenham Chronicle
Blood sport: Exhibit reveals the secret lives of a dreaded predatorHamilton-Wenham Chronicle, MA - 12 hours agoIn “Myth of the Black Box,” they mock us: A greenhead stands defiantly in front of the device designed to thin their population. They’re not afraid. ...
- WEATHERSFIELD AUTHOR PUBLISHES FIRST BOOK OF POETRY, AUGUST 25'08 - Message for the Week
WEATHERSFIELD AUTHOR PUBLISHES FIRST BOOK OF POETRY, AUGUST 25'08Message for the Week, VT - 14 minutes agoThe book is self-published by Greenbriar Publishing of Weathersfield, VT and printed by RC Brayshaw & Co. Inc., in Lebanon, NH. Selected illustration are by ...
- Ferdowsi narrated tragic scenes with subtle satire: Ehterami - Tehran Times
He made a speech elaborating on the “Satire in Shahnameh” during a meeting at the Tehran’s Book City main branch on Wednesday. “Hyperbole brings gratification to the epic genre. Exaggeration and contrast between the legend and reality attract ...
- Corsi's Dull Hatchet - Newsweek
Despite its place near the top of The New York Times' nonfiction bestseller list, where it has been riding high for the past six weeks, Jerome Corsi's "The Obama Nation" is not a reliable source of facts about Obama. Corsi cites opinion columns and ...
- What drives you??? - Daily Statesman
Just thought I'd post in and catch up with my friends in the blogosphere. Been missin' you all!! I just happened to be reading an inspirational book of stories that celebrate the literary life entitled A Cup of Comfort for Writers. I often go to it ...
- No comments (LA Weekly)
GO AMERICAN DEAD Brett Neveu’s play, first commissioned by Steppenwolf Theatre Company in Chicago — where the playwright earned his wunderkind reputation before immigrating to the film and TV biz out here — recalls an early stage work by Lanford Wilson, Rimers of Eldritch . Both works place their focus on the subtleties and vagaries of plain talk by plain folk, Midwesterners whose cities are ...
- A Rather Curious Engagement by CA Belmond - WTNH
A Rather Curious Engagement by CA BelmondWTNH, CT - 2 hours agoCA Belmond has published short fiction, poetry and humorous essays. She was awarded the Edward Albee Foundation Fellowship and was twice a Pushcart Press ...
- Sounds like art - Otago Daily Times
Sounds like artOtago Daily Times, New Zealand - 6 hours agoOther artistic lineages from which sound art emerges are conceptual art, minimalism, site-specific art, sound poetry, spoken word, avant-garde poetry and ...
- “Elegies” at Spots - Broadway World
Broadway World“Elegies” at SpotsBroadway World, NY - 30 minutes agoI'll even go so far as to say that it was probably heralded as the gay version of Def Poetry Jam, though I believe the latter came much later than Elegies. ...
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