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- Author's memory was overlooked - Morning Call
I was disappointed on July 22 that there was no mention in the paper that it was the 110th birthday of Pulitzer Prize-winning author Stephen Vincent Benét, who was born in Fountain Hill on that date in 1898. Benét wrote classics such as ''The Devil ...
- Why We Fight: Martin van Creveld's 'The Culture of War' - New York Sun
Why We Fight: Martin van Creveld's 'The Culture of War'New York Sun, United States - 7 hours ago... or that post-traumatic stress syndrome, graphic anti-war poetry, or politically active veterans groups argue against the notion that war is either ...
- Penniless author sells shares in next novel - Daily Telegraph
Tao Lin's first novel Eeeee Eee Eeee is at 29,914 in the Amazon sales rankings Investors can pay $2,000 (£1,000) in return for a 10 per cent share of the royalties of Tao Lin’s as-yet-unfinished second novel. Tao posted details of his “initial ...
- Emperor Hadrian, YouTube hero - Times Online
Emperor Hadrian, YouTube heroTimes Online, UK - 6 minutes agoNor is it to be doubted that, in the authentic manner of a French intellectual, he wrote poetry, had a passion for art, and cheated on his wife. ...
- Mahmoud Darwish's translator is honoured - Guardian Unlimited
The translator of the late Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish's collection The Butterfly's Burden has won the Saif Ghobash-Banipal Prize for literary translation from Arabic. Fady Joudah, a Palestinian American poet, practising doctor and poetry ...
- What's the matter with kids today? (And how to mentor) - Boston Globe
What's the matter with kids today? (And how to mentor)Boston Globe, United States - 5 hours agoAll the hot-button teen issues are here. From "Buddies and Death Threats" (the essential lifeline of friends) to "Being a Better Horrible You" (self help ...
- Indie film's new, globalized realism (Salon.com)
Do low-budget American films like "The Pool" (made in Hindi) and "August Evening" (made in Spanish) signal a new wave of cultural exploration, or just hipster tourism?
- Ever thine. Ever mine: How romantic are today's authors? (Independent)
There's a memorable moment in the recent movie, Sex and the City, when Carrie lugs out an oversized book called Love Letters of Great Men, and entertains Mr Big with flowery passages from Byron and Bonaparte. It's a scene that had SATC fans rushing out to bookshops, only to discover that while the letters quoted were real, the book was never more than a Hollywood prop.
- 'Van Gogh and Colors of the Night': Brilliantly charting an artist's metamorphosis (International Herald Tribune)
The exhibition "Van Gogh and the Colors of the Night" on view at the Museum of Modern Art in New York represents a new kind of blockbuster.
- Back to the Future (The Nation via Yahoo! News)
The Nation -- This Saturday, September 27, tens of thousands of people nationwide are joining together for a national day of action to let the candidates, and the country, know that they're ready to start transitioning to a green economy. Organized by Green for All, 1 Sky and the We Campaign, this day of action currently includes more than 600 events in all 50 states of the union and the list ...
- is this the dumbest generation EVER? - Canada.com
is this the dumbest generation EVER?Canada.com, Canada - 2 hours ago"I remember an Introduction to Poetry class in which I told students that their homework was to memorize 20 lines of any poem and to recite it at our next ...
- Why John Updike is a virtual shadow of his old self - Guardian Blogs
In his latest novel, The Widows of Eastwick, which will be published in October, John Updike puts these words into the mouth of one of his characters: "...print doesn't mean to people what it used to, it may be. A considerable number get what news ...
- NYC Scene - Norwalk Hour
"Whats That Smell? The Music of Jacob Sterling." Atlantic Theater Company, 330 West 16th St. (212) 279-4200. Written and performed by Tony Award-nominee David Pittu, "What's That Smell: The Music of Jacob Sterling" is a satire that charts the career ...
- Ayoon Wa Azan (Meanings that Reflect the Atmosphere of Victory and ... - Dar Al Hayat
I am examining, with some friends, the possibility of publishing a new Arabic dictionary, one in which the definitions of words are in tune with the times we live in. Here are some examples: - Extremist: every person who has an opinion different from ...
- Please turn to page 69 - Christian Science Monitor
Please turn to page 69Christian Science Monitor, MA - 18 hours agoOf course it’s also true that these books are, respectively, a volume of poetry and a short story collection – perhaps not the kind of books that McLuhan ...
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