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- Byron's bear and other tales - guardian.co.uk
Byron's bear and other talesguardian.co.uk, UK - 3 hours agoThe Oxford Guide to Literary Britain and Ireland is a treasure trove of anecdotes, quotes obscure and reassuringly familiar, odd poetry and literary pub ...
- WH Auden struggles for the conch - Telegraph.co.uk
Telegraph.co.ukWH Auden struggles for the conchTelegraph.co.uk, United Kingdom - 3 hours agoThe Picasso of poetry? Think about the virtuosic display of multiple styles in The Waste Land. Philip Larkin, diagnosing the relative failure of Auden's ...
- Bear books for children are great reading (San Francisco Chronicle)
Bears loom large in children's literature - teddy bears, panda bears and Goldilocks' mild-mannered victims, for example. This season, such cuddly human stand-ins reappear in three utterly charming sequels to recent favorites, all about friends. A deferential...
- McDonagh led cheers for village (The Saginaw News)
As a novelist and a poet, Marie Flowers McDonagh is leaving a legacy on the village of Chesaning. In October 2006, doctors told McDonagh she had lung cancer. She died Monday at 84.
- Howard Jacobson: We get the war criminals we deserve - Independent
Howard Jacobson: We get the war criminals we deserveIndependent, UK - 3 hours agoAs Anne Elliott cautions Captain Benwick in Jane Austen's Persuasion, "It [is] the misfortune of poetry to be seldom safely enjoyed by those who enjoy it ...
- ‘Paruthiveeran’ hogs the limelight (The Hindu)
Awards for Priya Mani and Vasanthabalan
- Haverhill writer to speak - Eagle-Tribune
The Haverhill Greater Poets will meet July 19 at 10 a.m. at the public library. Michael Veves, whose columns have appeared in local newspapers, will speak about his experiences as a writer over a 30-year period. He will explore finding a writing ...
- Fund helps with care for writer Hyland - Moose Jaw Times-Herald
Fund helps with care for writer HylandMoose Jaw Times-Herald, Canada - 3 hours agoHyland is the author of two chapter books and five full-length books of poetry. He also co-edited two humour anthologies and two poetry collections. ...
- CTH Presents Van Peebles' 'Ain't Supposed To Die' Outdoors - Broadway World
CTH Presents Van Peebles' 'Ain't Supposed To Die' OutdoorsBroadway World, NY - 2 hours agoThe New York Times said, “This early precursor to hip-hop, rap and poetry slams is a get-down, roiling depiction of ghetto life” and goes on to say that the ...
- Caroline Kennedy brings discretion to veep search - NWI.com
BOSTON - Caroline Kennedy lives a very private life with a very public profile. It's the perfect skill set for her newest assignment. As part of Barack Obama's vice presidential search team, Kennedy must function with the utmost secrecy in what is ...
- Un Certain Regard: 'Johnny Mad Dog' and 'Delta' (International Herald Tribune)
"Johnny Mad Dog," by Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire, is a brutal and assaultive fiction about Liberian child soldiers that's presented without context or explanation. "Delta," by the Hungarian director Kornel Mundruczo, is a beautiful if somewhat cliché art film of life in a Hungarian river settlement.
- A self-professed intellectual who felt he understood his people (International Herald Tribune)
It was in his intellectual guise that Radovan Karadzic liked to present himself to visitors at the height of his power, when he ruled as president of the self-styled Srpska Republic and supreme commander of its armed forces.
- Silver Jews, "Lookout Mountain, Lookout Sea" (Drag City) - Chicago Tribune
Silver Jews, "Lookout Mountain, Lookout Sea" (Drag City)Chicago Tribune, United States - 6 hours agoWhat Berman did always bring was a serious, if often playful, literate acuity (his 1999 collection, "Actual Air," is a well-reviewed book of poetry). ...
- UMAPAGAN AMPIKAIPAKAN: An obsession that pervades every aspect of my ... - New Straits Times
WE all have our vices, a weakness of character that, as amatter of course, consumes us. It preoccupies our every thought. It isolates us, it alienates us, until eventually, it leaves us prostrate and penniless. As for me, my idiosyncrasies do not lie ...
- Prince working on book to be published in the fall - Newsday
NEW YORK - Prince the musical auteur is becoming an author. "21 Nights," a "photographic essay" that offers "a rare glimpse into the life, lyrics, and mystique" of the maker of such hits as "1999" and "Purple Rain," will be published worldwide come ...
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