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- Welcome return for writer Simon - Huddersfield Examiner
Welcome return for writer SimonHuddersfield Examiner, UK - 11 hours agoSimon peppers his work with family anecdotes, carefully observed humour and self-deprecating tales of his own live poetry readings. ...
- 22nd Oregon Book Awards draws a strong field - The Oregonian - OregonLive.com
22nd Oregon Book Awards draws a strong fieldThe Oregonian - OregonLive.com, OR - 2 hours agoFinalists for the Stafford/Hall Award for Poetry: Judith Barrington of Portland ("Postcard From the Bottom of the Sea"), Brian Doyle of Portland ("Thirsty ...TOME RAIDER: 2008 Oregon Book Award Finalists Announced Willamette Weekall 2 news articles
- GALEN HOLLEY:A mixture of the horrid and the florid in Savannah - NE Mississippi Daily Journal
A couple of weeks ago I took a tour of Mercer-Williams House in Savannah, Georgia, the house in John Berendt's book "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil," and the movie by the same name. The most famous - or infamous - resident of Mercer House ...
- Herring 'n' butterflies: Rick Jones remembers his tutor, WG Sebald (Independent)
The inaugural WG Sebald conference took place under heavy skies at the University of East Anglia in Norwich. The 100 international delegates slept in student residences designed to resemble ziggurat pyramids by the architect Denys Lasdun in the 1960s, when the concrete university came and robbed the city of its golf course. Such a pyramid is the Tower of Babel supposed to have been; apt for the ...
- She Relishes Covers, Arias and ’70s R&B - New York Times
New York TimesShe Relishes Covers, Arias and ’70s R&BNew York Times, United States - 23 minutes agoHer new gospel-infused pop anthems and hymns, she said, are a response to 9/11 as well as Walt Whitman’s poetry about the city. ...
- Andrew Davidson's $2.5-million voyage - Globe and Mail
WINNIPEG  Andrew Davidson's fantastic journey to a literary payday some estimate to be more than $2-million began in Japan almost a decade ago with a vision, an image, a fantasy, if you will. It was a vision, unbidden and fully formed, of a woman ...
- Sean Connery's memoirs no "kiss and tell" - Vancouver Sun
Vancouver SunSean Connery's memoirs no "kiss and tell"Vancouver Sun, Canada - 2 hours agoA passionate Scot, he devotes much of the well-illustrated work to Scotland itself, its history, art, literature, architecture and poetry. ...
- We Still Welcome Local Poets - Great Neck Record
We Still Welcome Local PoetsGreat Neck Record, NY - 4 hours agoWe would love to reinstate our "Local Poets" column. All we need is some poetry from our readers. We would all be just delighted to once again publish the ...
- Steel vows to 'get better forever' (The Cincinnati Enquirer)
Danielle Steel's 75th book is "Rogue," the tale of a sober-minded psychologist and her playboy ex-husband. The author doesn't need the fame that goes with all her books. She just wants to write.
- July Calendar - TheTimes
TheTimesJuly CalendarTheTimes, OR - 7 hours agoYou’ll love the Gorge Games. Now in its 14th year, the games feature world-class competition in windsurfing, kayaking, sailing, sailboarding, cycling, ...
- Perles before Swine - Opera News (subscription)
Opera News (subscription)Perles before SwineOpera News (subscription), NY - 10 minutes agoIn effect, vériste sensibilities trumped the more benign poetry of the original. This compromised, perfumed cousin of Carmen held the stage through the ...
- God and John McCain - Arkansas Times
Matt Taibbi on politics and religion -- smart, outrageous, blasphemous, funny. His latest is a tour de force on John McCain's half-hearted outreach to the Republican evangelical base, which includes a newfound devotion to regular church attendance ...
- Fringe Finds (Gay City News)
In a story about a long-running threesome, the passion between Daryl Embry as George Platt Lynes and John DelVecchio as Monroe Wheeler remains center stage.
- Superficial religiosity under the shadow of ideology - Himal Southasian
Himal SouthasianSuperficial religiosity under the shadow of ideologyHimal Southasian, Nepal - 51 minutes agoForemost amongst these was the poetry of Altaf Hussain Hali and Muhammad Iqbal, structured around an illusion of a supposedly glorious past; this enthralled ...
- Kids perform poetry at writer's workshop (Lancaster Eagle-Gazette)
LANCASTER - Jack Blankenship, a poet and Eagle-Gazettecorrespondent, penned his first-published poem while hiding underneath his parents' bed. His payment was a spanking and $5.
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