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- Man v. Flesh (Jackson Free Press)
Andre Dubus III’s “Garden of the Last Days” (W. W. Norton, 2008, $24.95) is a brick of a book. At 500-plus pages, it’s America on parade: g-strings and neon, alcohol and testosterone, easy cash, patriotism and dumb sentiment. Once launched, though, a brick sinks quickly.
- Man gets 40 years for photos - Sarasota Herald-Tribune
Man gets 40 years for photosSarasota Herald-Tribune, FL - 15 hours agoHe read a poem and said he dreams of "putting my family back together, to let my children know I love them." Bucklew, the judge, dismissed Metz's apology ...
- MAPS Festival @ Northern Quarter - Manchester Evening News
MUSIC Arts Poetry and Stuff, aka MAPS Festival, rocked into Manchester on May Bank Holiday weekend. Over 200 bands took to the stages in venues across the Northern Quarter to launch this new creative break through festival. From acoustic street sets ...
- Rushdie traces the roots of his latest award-winning tale (The Charlotte Observer)
Fatehpur Sikri, the old, abandoned capital of India's Mughal King Akbar, is a somewhat deserted place these days, a bit off the beaten tourist path, outdone by the popularity of the Taj Mahal about an hour away. Here, guides spin questionable tales of the emperor playing hide-and-seek with his beautiful queens. And here, within the parched landscape of the ghost city, author Salman Rushdie stood ...
- Best bets - Saturday, June 28 - Daily Camera
Best bets - Saturday, June 28Daily Camera, CO - 5 hours agoPoetry Reading Featuring Orlando White, Charles Alexander, Sinan Antoon and Harryette Mullen, part of summer writing program, 8 pm, Naropa Performing Arts ...
- Woman shares great joy with 'Grandmotherhood' [11 hrs ago] - NewsOK.com (subscription)
Woman shares great joy with 'Grandmotherhood' [11 hrs ago]NewsOK.com (subscription), OK - 2 hours agoSandra Gales Shapard has published her fifth book of poetry, and it should be a resounding hit with grandmothers. The small volume, "Grandmotherhood: Poetry ...
- Open Letter to Congressman Ed Towns - Huffingtonpost.com
I hope you and your family are well. I am forced to write this open letter because you have failed to stand up and be counted during this election. After a quarter century you have also not delivered for the people in your district. I am disappointed ...
- Martin Scorsese, Youssou N'Dour Join International Arts Initiative - PR Newswire
NEW YORK, Nov. 13 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- At a star-studded gala last night at Lincoln Center hosted by CEO Patrick Heiniger, Rolex announced the six master artists who will serve as mentors in the fourth cycle of its international philanthropic ...
- Not The Front Lines Of Humor - The Bulletin
"I don't read scripts," Robert Downey, Jr. tells us late into "Tropic Thunder," the much-anticipated - and controversial - comedy directed by Ben Stiller, which opens today. "Scripts read me." Mr. Downey is Kirk Lazarus, "a dude playing a dude ...
- Hip-Hop Rumors: Detox In Dec? Nas Gives Fox Hell! - allhiphop.com
Rumors are just that rumors. If you read the news, you should know that Jimmy Iovine is still running Interscope records. On the flip side, there are a lot of rumors going on over there. I’m hearing that a lot of artists are on hold until Dr. Dre ...
- Writers Notebook: Group plans open-mike on Tuesday - Winston-Salem Journal
Writers Notebook: Group plans open-mike on TuesdayWinston-Salem Journal, NC - 3 hours ago... Writers will have an open-mike night at 7 pm Tuesday at Billy Bob's Silver Diner, 1650 Hanes Mall Blvd. Writers may read aloud their poetry and prose. ...
- Spike in sales for next poet laureate - Mid Columbia Tri City Herald
Spike in sales for next poet laureateMid Columbia Tri City Herald, WA - Jul 17, 2008... poetry books, and are out of stock. Meanwhile her publisher, Grove Press, said Thursday it was planning a new book, "New and Selected Poems. ...
- Poetic Justice - Spectator.org
Throughout the history of Western Civilization governments have devised all manner of diabolical ways to punish malefactors and scofflaws. Until the 20th century those found guilty of serious crimes at the Old Bailey were subject to any number of ...
- PATH OF THE ASSASSIN VOL. 10: BATTLE FOR POWER - Active Anime (press release)
Active Anime (press release)PATH OF THE ASSASSIN VOL. 10: BATTLE FOR POWERActive Anime (press release) - 3 hours agoIn this fictional telling of to-be shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu’s early life, Kazuo Koike and Goseki Kojima weave an intriguing, sexy, and charming story of young ...
- Biography - Favorite Poet - Rod McKuen - Gather.com
Biography - Favorite Poet - Rod McKuenGather.com, MA - 12 minutes agoReturning to the US and settling in San Francisco, he read his poetry alongside Beat icons like Kerouac and Ginsberg, and began performing as a singer at ...
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