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- Around 10000 Attend The Funeral of Palestinian National Poet ... - ABC News
ABC NewsAround 10000 Attend The Funeral of Palestinian National Poet ...ABC News - Aug 13, 2008"But his poetry gives us hope and guidance." Lama al-Khelleh, a 28-year-old housewife from Nablus, said she felt bereaved by Darwish's death. ...
- Secrets and lives (Salon.com)
Sebastian Barry may be the most exhilarating prose stylist in Irish fiction. His new book weaves together strands from Ireland's past -- and his own.
- Shuffling Through Memories: BS Johnson's 'The Unfortunates' - New York Sun
Shuffling Through Memories: BS Johnson's 'The Unfortunates'New York Sun, United States - 2 hours agoIn 1961, while shopping his first book to agents, Johnson compared it favorably to "Ulysses," and declared himself in the tradition of "Petronius, Apuleius, ...
- Controversial 'Stitching' Gets Second Extension in NYC (Playbill via Yahoo! News)
Popular demand has prompted a second extension of the U.S. premiere of Stitching by Anthony Neilson, directed by Timothy Haskell. The run will now end Aug. 9 at The Wild Project in Manhattan.
- Andrew Davidson's $2.5-million voyage (The Globe and Mail)
This Canadian's literary odyssey began with a visit from an imaginary siren who insisted her story be put to paper. It evolved into a centuries-long saga of a porn star and his muse. It ended with publishing deals spanning the globe
- Literary Calendar - The Gazette (Montreal)
Literary CalendarThe Gazette (Montreal), Canada - 2 hours agoYiddish Café celebrates Israel@60, with Yiddish poetry and song, 8 pm at the Jewish Public Library, 5151 Côte Ste. Catherine Rd. Cost is $5 for JPL members ...
- Class Of 2008 Bids Farewell To Williams Amid Songs, Poetry, Words ... - TheDay
Class Of 2008 Bids Farewell To Williams Amid Songs, Poetry, Words ...TheDay, CT - 47 minutes agoThe ceremony featured students reciting their own poetry, performing their own songs and a solo from Handel's opera “Xerxes.” As per graduation tradition, ...
- Exhibition built on lies - Tonight South Africa
On a neatly neutral shelf, like those in de rigueur walk-in boudoirs, is lined a clutter of iconic shapes representing the famous smells of vanity. Neutralised in having been painted matt black throughout, the installation of familiar perfume bottles ...
- The Team Behind 'Hamlet 2' - Artistdirect.com
Artistdirect.comThe Team Behind 'Hamlet 2'Artistdirect.com, CA - 58 minutes agoAF: Written a lot of poetry. A lot of bad poetry. AF: But it was really the kind of thing where as we were prepping the movie, I said we should have more of ...
- Dreams for the waking mind - Daily Telegraph
Wallace Stevens was a poet's poet, in the Keatsian sense that some of his most intensely engaged work concerned poetry itself. What is poetry? He saw it not as a substitute for religion but as a way of exploring the mental territory in which most ...
- New things to do around town - Long Beach Press-Telegram
New things to do around townLong Beach Press-Telegram, CA - 4 hours agoPhantom Projects presents six aspiring teenage performers in an event blending drama, poetry, comedy, dance and storytelling. 7 pm Saturday. ...
- Centuries-old Shakespeare volume recovered - Independent Online
London - It's a case of all's well that ends well. Police have recovered a 400-year-old volume of Shakespeare stolen in England a decade ago and worth millions of pounds after a man walked into a library in Washington, D.C. and asked to have it ...
- The McEwan Delusion: The Pseudo-Threat of Islamism - OpEdNews.com
As a novelist, Ian McEwan is talented to the point of self- caricature : he writes nothing that hasn't been dislocated on the rack of his talent. As the leader of today's "look-at-me-I'm-a-writer!" lolly-pop guild, he would never dream of a sentence ...
- Lost for words - Guardian Unlimited
It's time to head to a Greek island with a suitcase filled with sun block, thongs and good intentions. Or, if, like me, you are planning to favour Tenby, a chilblain remedy, ear muffs and a stormproof thermal one-piece. But you will still want to ...
- Five Questions: Pasha Malla - Walrus Magazine
Walrus MagazineFive Questions: Pasha MallaWalrus Magazine, Canada - Aug 12, 2008I wrote them, obviously, trying to be funny, but other people finding my stuff funny—or not—is up to them. That’s the thing about humour: it’s completely ...
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