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- Sat,28 Jun 2008 (Hindustan Times)
After the response to the screening of Everlasting Light , the documentary on Amitabh Bachchan, at MAMI last week, Jaya Bachchan is encouraged to find a wider platform to screen the film as well as work on a follow-up project.
- For the Palestinians, the death of the people's poet (San Francisco Chronicle)
Mahmoud Darwish, the writer and man of verse who died last weekend in Houston, at the age of 67, from complications following heart surgery, was that rare, expressive figure who managed to speak for...
- From Service Function to Discipline - Inside Higher Ed
As thousands of the professors who teach writing and rhetoric gather in New York City this week, many of their programs are on a roll. Instructors who long felt tethered in English departments, and relegated to teaching freshman comp or remedial ...
- Youthful Offenders Restoring Luster to Diners of Old - New York Times
New York TimesYouthful Offenders Restoring Luster to Diners of OldNew York Times, United States - 3 hours ago“The whole poetry behind it is that these are kids who have been pretty much cast away emotionally and criminally, getting a chance to restore beloved ...
- Arts and Culture - Philippine Star Online
A few weeks ago down in Sydney , I picked up a newspaper and discovered a new word: “stoush.” Two rich and pretty sisters (always guaranteed to wake me up with the morning coffee) were embroiled in a catfight, but before I could even get to the ...
- Barfly: Getting a lesson from a mysterious absintheur - Marin Independent Journal
"Tuesday afternoon, I'm just beginning to see, now I'm on my way," went the 1967 hit by the psychedelic rock band, the Moody Blues. I recalled that song after making a Tuesday afternoon appointment to meet with a modern absintheur and be initiated ...
- Lynn Woods Reservation - Boston Globe
Lynn Woods ReservationBoston Globe, United States - 2 hours agoIn the evenings, the cafe often offers music, an open mike, and poetry readings - and the walls feature the work of local artists. ...
- Minus tornado, youth-group fundraiser a success (Savannah Morning News)
Dozens of youngsters - undaunted by a tornado that washed out their first attempt - gathered Wednesday for an album-release party and fundraiser at Lake Mayer. The celebration went smoother this go-round: The sun shone, a summer breeze was blowing and the local youth group All Walks of Life raised money for an upcoming poetry competition in Washington. "Last time, we could taste the water ...
- All-star cast of artists, writers headed to Chautauqua - Buffalo News
All-star cast of artists, writers headed to ChautauquaBuffalo News, United States - 1 hour agoWith a writing career that spans 25 years, Oates is the author of more than 70 books, including novels, short-story collections, poetry volumes, plays, ...
- Street lit offers outlet for upstart authors - Philadelphia Daily News
"How you doin', sister?" Khalil Robinson calls to a young woman passing his stand in the lunchtime rush. "I got a new author here." Behind Robinson, the self-described "Philly Book Man," sits his large display of street lit - books with glossy covers ...
- Nam Le's long, literary journey - San Francisco Gate
In the opening story of "The Boat," a remarkable first collection by 29-year-old Nam Le, the main character shares a number of characteristics with the author. Both are writers named Nam, Vietnamese by birth and Australian by upbringing. Both have ...
- Christina Patterson: The more sex we get, the more we want (Independent)
"Sex," says the 17-year-old narrator of The Catcher in the Rye, "is something I really don't understand." Well, mate, nor do I. I only know (yes, I'm afraid I do know) that the arms of someone you don't even like – who your head, and your friends, tell you is a total shit – can feel like your natural home on this planet.
- CDs of the week - Evening Standard
Understandably dumped by their label after 2005's almost unlistenable Odditorium Or Warlords Of Mars, The Dandy Warhols have wisely refocused and have mostly ditched the doodling and childish shouting. The spiralling Wasp in the Lotus is their most ...
- Kaleidoscope poetry - LoHo 10002
Kaleidoscope poetryLoHo 10002, NY - 2 hours agoOn Saturday, starting at 4 pm, there is a wild collaboration of poets and musicians going down at The Bowery Poetry Club. ...
- Andrew Davidson's $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 ...
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