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- Around the towns (The Scranton Times-Tribune)
Archbald As part of a month of ceremonies to honor the 150th anniversary of the parish of St. Thomas Aquinas, members will be walking more than 6 miles from the church to St. Rose of Lima Church in Carbondale on Sept. 13, starting at 12:45 p.m.
- Int'l poetry night at Redbones café - Jamaica Gleaner
With performers from Jamaica, Canada (by way of Jamaica) and the Turks and Caicos Islands, plus snippets from nine-year-old Irish-Italian Margaret and Kadija from England, last Wednesday's 'Contemporary Literature' at Redbones the Blues Café turned ...
- State Round Up (Michigan Outdoor News)
THIS WEEK WE GET TO SAY CONGRATULATIONS to one of our young readers - Anna Schneider, of New London. Back in December, Anna won the Wisconsin Outdoor News Youth Writing Contest in the junior prose division.
- The Enchanter of Words (Deccan Herald)
Readers have voted Salman Rushdies 1981 novel Midnights Children their favourite Booker prize-winner of all time. He talks to Stuart Jeffries about surviving a fatwa, and why free speech is as important as ever.
- Storyteller La'Ron Williams: Funny thing happened on his way to career ... - MLive.com
Courtesy Photo La'Ron Williams will return to the Flint area as part of the 28th annual Michigan Storytellers Festival on Friday, July 18, and Saturday, July 19, on the grounds of the Flint Public Library . FLINT, Michigan -- La'Ron Williams may not ...
- Towards Another Summer - Financial Times
Janet Frame is best known for An Angel at My Table , a volume of autobiography that deal t openly with her experience of mental illness. Yet she shelved this second autobiographical novel, Towards Another Summer , for being too “embarrassingly ...
- Remembering Thomas M. Disch (Salon.com)
In his many dark, satirical, heretical books, the pioneering science fiction author contemplated death with elegant despair.
- Jazz Festival This Week - WKRG-TV
WKRG-TVJazz Festival This WeekWKRG-TV, AL - 17 hours agoAlong with music, poetry gets the spotlight tonight with an evening of poetry at the Alabama School of Math and Science. “Poetry is like the air I breathe ...
- Duo's 'Koana' captures D.C. audience (Honolulu Star-Bulletin)
James Kass, founder and executive director of Youth Speaks, is particularly proud of what the Hawaii team did to win the nonprofit organization's Brave New Voices international competition.
- Thanh Nien - Thanhnien
This woman’s work is never done – from helping orphans 40 years ago to starting a festival this October to celebrate Hanoi’s Long Bien Bridge. French overseas Vietnamese, Nguyen Nga has maintained a long-running commitment to her home country ...
- Peebles gallery gets rare show of Bob Dylan prints - Sunday Herald
AN EMERGING ART GALLERY IN PEEBLES has scored a coup by becoming one of only two venues in Scotland to display artworks by the legendary singer/songwriter Bob Dylan. Dylan's intriguing drawings and sketches, produced while he toured ...
- Holiday hotlist: Our favourite writers nominate the perfect book for summer (Independent)
I like roughing it, with Mr Greene. Last summer I backpacked the length of Vietnam with The Quiet American; just as I'd done round Cuba, with Our Man in Havana.
- NBC's 'Kings' casts Ian McShane in story based on David and Goliath - Cleveland Plain Dealer
Beverly Hills, Calif. -- The NBC drama "Kings," which will premiere at midseason, is a modern retelling of the Biblical story of David and Goliath. But "it is not a religious show," said one of the show's three executive producers, Francis Lawrence ...
- Barack Obama and Me - Houston Press
Caroline, or Change Somewhere in between tonal poetry and contemporary opera lies Tony Kushner's admirably somber musical Caroline, or Change , a complex, emotionally cool collage of characters and music that slowly comes together to capture the rich ...
- Botswana: Bessie Head Competition (AllAfrica.com)
The Bessie Head Heritage Trust and Pentagon Publishers have announced the winners of the 2008 Bessie Head Literature Awards. They are: Novel - Phidson Mojokeri, for Curse of a Dream (first prize); Khumo Ketlhwaafetse, for Scrap Yard (second); and Yamikani Patson, for Hang Him (third).
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