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- Pretty pictures, poetry, prose perfect for lazy phase (The Columbus Dispatch)
New titles in a variety of genres provide fodder for that great summer activity for kids -- reading for fun.
- Passed/Failed: An education in the life of Gavin Esler, Newsnight presenter and novelist (Independent)
Gavin Esler, 55, is a presenter on BBC2's Newsnight and also on BBC News24. His fourth novel, A Scandalous Man, is just out, and he is one of the BBC Radio 4 contributors to More From Our Own Correspondent, also out now
- Weaver wins Pushcart for poem 'American Income' (Somerville Journal)
Winners of the Pushcart Prize are chosen from among thousands of nominations of writers’ works published each year in small magazines and presses throughout the world.
- Good work, bad attitude: Negative stereotyping among volunteers - The Star-Ledger - NJ.com
Good work, bad attitude: Negative stereotyping among volunteersThe Star-Ledger - NJ.com, NJ - 48 minutes agoAmbitious enough to have traveled the country to share her poetry, hard-working enough to haved earn a college diploma, and smart enough to be a member of ...
- Summer Solstice Poetry 7 features New Jersey poets BJ Ward and ... - Packet Online
Catherine KHN Magia will read and perform her poetry at Summer Solstice Poetry 7 in West Windsor, June 22. For all of his life, poet BJ Ward observed that his father had black hands, literally ink-stained from his work on the presses of the Newark ...
- Abby: Everyday kindness is secret of marriages - Independent
DEAR ABBY: I would like to respond to “Kelly in Austin” (March 24), who wondered if there were more than two men who excel at romance. Abby, my husband has given me a total of four pieces of jewelry throughout our 13-year relationship. However ...
- Garden of gratitude - San Diego Union-Tribune
But some eighth-graders at San Marcos Middle School embraced the after-school project after seeing pictures of an award-winning cactus garden with bright colors and resembling a coral reef. They perked up more after visiting Palomar College's cactus ...
- Books: Bob Dylan's 'girl on the album cover' paints a portrait of folk ... - Salt Lake Tribune
NEW YORK - It was one of the most iconic record album covers ever released, and Suze Rotolo was part of it: On a snowy day in 1963, she snuggled with Bob Dylan as the two walked down a Greenwich Village street. ''The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan'' went on ...
- America's wackiest festivals (MSNBC)
A month-by-month guide to the contests and parades that bring out America's best and quirkiest. Some people will dream up any excuse for a party!
- Axe victim escaped 'rage' of Sydney (The Maclay Argus)
The policewoman whose young children were killed in an axe murder in Cowra yesterday was glad to have escaped the "rage" of Sydney, and dreamt of writing plays and poems and playing the saxophone.
- Hot-and-bothered Dingell slams 'bastard' Republicans (The Washington Examiner)
Maybe it's the summer heat that's making Washington politicians a tad grumpy.
- The Impostor, by Damon Galgut (Independent)
A ramshackle farmhouse in the hinterland of South Africa, a mysterious silent neighbour and a town where corruption has become a way of life. These ingredients go into making Damon Galgut's follow-up to The Good Doctor. It's a spine-chilling read that doubles as a sharp and rather depressing critique of the "new" South Africa.
- Former teacher still remembered at 100 (Altoona Mirror)
When Eleanore Steckman celebrated her 100th birthday May 30, she received more than 150 birthday cards from family, friends and past students. Some students included the long list of prepositions they were made to memorize from her English classes at Keith Junior High School.
- Roan Press, Small Literary Press, Launched in Sacramento, California - Associated Content
Roan Press, Small Literary Press, Launched in Sacramento, CaliforniaAssociated Content, CO - 1 hour agoOther literary presses have focused on poetry, but the launching of Roan Press will cover a growing need for publishing services in the region.
- Pierce Brosnan's Springsteen ambition - Monsters and Critics
Pierce Brosnan wants to star in a musical about Bruce Springsteen. The 55-year-old actor - who debuts his vocal talents in the ABBA-inspired musical 'Mamma Mia!' - has got the taste for singing on screen, and is keen to take on the challenge of ...
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