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- Love bugs: Some of the most charming characters in movies and books ... - Fort Worth Star-Telegram
Some of the most charming movie and book characters are insects. Here’s a look at some of our favorites and ways for your kids to take a swat at learning about ’em. OK, OK, the robots are super-cool, but there is an overlooked star of the movie ...
- New Odor-Reducing Products - Hartford Courant
Hartford CourantNew Odor-Reducing ProductsHartford Courant, United States - 35 minutes agoAnd their sales pitch is, well, pure poetry: Check them out at www.poopourri.net. A 2-ounce bottle costs $9.95. Another product, called Just A Drop, ...
- Chance encounter inspires a novel - Australian Star
Chance encounter inspires a novelAustralian Star, Australia - 1 hour ago“I started writing poetry when I was a teenager, but writing The Migrant was my first novel,†he said. “I started it in 2003 and finished it in 2005. ...
- Authors grieve over apparent suicide of David Foster Wallace, writer of "Infinite Jest" (Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune)
NEW YORK - The literary world is in grief for David Foster Wallace, an author of seemingly unstoppable curiosity, imagination and ambition who apparently killed himself last week.
- Edward Said and Mahmoud Darwish (Al-Ahram Weekly)
It is five years today -- Thursday 25 September -- since the death of the Palestinian public intellectual and political activist Edward Said, "the most brilliantly eloquent emissary of Palestine to the outside world" in the words of an equally eloquent and brilliant fellow compatriot -- Mahmoud Darwish.
- Palestinians say farewell to poet - Kazinform
Palestinians say farewell to poetKazinform, Kazakhstan - Aug 13, 2008His poems were transformed into popular songs and used in political speeches, and the words he wrote now form part of Palestinian daily life, ...
- Bushra Raja launches poetry collection - The News International
Bushra Raja launches poetry collectionThe News International, Pakistan - 5 hours agoSenior Producer Shama Haris said that by conducting the first-of-its-kind literary function under ‘Bazm-e-Adab’, VOW has provided a platform for Urdu ...
- Pulitzer hoax targets city's poet laureate - Brantford Expositor
Pulitzer hoax targets city's poet laureateBrantford Expositor, Canada - 2 hours agoThe only three-time recipient of the Milton Acorn People's Poetry Award has earned some 70 prestigious national and international awards for his writing, ...
- DVD: If you didn't like 'Friends,' maybe you'll like 'Spaced' - Cleveland Plain Dealer
It's easy to get lost in "Spaced." The addictive British sitcom invades these shores Tuesday on DVD, offering welcome relief from the usual cookie-cutter TV comedy. Quick-witted co-creators Simon Pegg and Jessica Hynes (nee Stevenson) star as ...
- South Asian culture abounds at Masala festival - insideTORONTO.com
South Asian culture abounds at Masala festivalinsideTORONTO.com, Canada - 7 hours agoThe festival offers an opportunity to established and emerging artists in traditional and contemporary music, dance, film, theatre, literature and poetry to ...
- Drag queen Daniel Radcliffe - Monsters and Critics
Daniel Radcliffe wants to play a drag queen in his next movie. The 'Harry Potter' star confessed he would love to land the unusual role because it would allow him to dress as a woman and wear make-up. He said: "I think part of me would love to play a ...
- "Hardheaded Weather": Desires unmet across the great racial divide (Seattle Times)
In "Hardheaded Weather," poet Cornelius Eady vividly explores issues of racial division in American life.
- City Book Fair wants to put burgeoning literary community on the ... - San Diego Union Tribune
San Diego Union TribuneCity Book Fair wants to put burgeoning literary community on the ...San Diego Union Tribune, United States - 1 hour agoBrown, the creative writing professor, will take her poetry class to Saturday's readings by Carolyn Forché and Li-Young Lee because “so rarely do my ...
- A fool’s reflection - Fool's Mountain
A fool’s reflectionFool's Mountain, San Francisco - 1 hour agoFast forward to May, 1989, a pair of lines of poetry (duilian, Chinese antithetical couplet) was pasted on the sides of entrance of our college dormitory ...
- Woman celebrates 100th birthday - Herald-Dispatch
HUNTINGTON -- Wilda Dillon, the grandmother and great-grandmother of several Huntington area residents, will celebrate her 100th birthday on Saturday, July 19. She was born in 1908 at Kirk and is a resident of Radnor in Wayne County, according to ...
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