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- The Woman in White (New York Review of Books)
An article by Joyce Carol Oates from The New York Review of Books, September 25, 2008
- Flint restaurant, Oasis, offers flavors and foods of Eritrea - MLive.com
FLINT, Michigan -- Abel Berhe renamed the former Golden Gate restaurant the Oasis. It is an apt name because a half-dozen dishes from his native Eritrea are available, surrounded on the menu by the predictable fish and chips, spaghetti with meatballs ...
- A testament to Lessing's literary vitality (Concord Monitor)
Last year, Doris Lessing, almost 88 and the outspoken, iconoclastic author of more than 50 books - novels, story collections, poetry and nonfiction - became the oldest writer to receive the Nobel Prize in literature. This year, she has published yet another volume, a clever, moving coupling of fiction and nonfiction.
- Sharp female characters enliven 20th century context in Fulton's ‘Nightingales of Troy' (The Ithaca Journal)
Big trees. Wide open fields. And just enough people to make you feel not alone, but not annoyed. In Alice Fulton's “The Nightingales of Troy,†Upstate New York is all that  but it is also the last place for love to be found. At least the poet's new fiction collection keeps beautiful misery in the family as it follows the experiences of four generations of women planted in Troy, N.Y. Each piece ...
- Del Martin, 87, pioneering lesbian activist (San Jose Mercury News)
Del Martin, a strident and eloquent voice in the early gay and lesbian civil rights movement in America, died Wednesday in San Francisco not long after enjoying perhaps the hardest-won prize of her lifelong cause -- legal marriage to Phyllis Lyon, her longtime partner. Martin was 87.
- Fringe Festival '08 - Vancouver Sun
Vancouver SunFringe Festival '08Vancouver Sun, Canada - 36 minutes ago"I was 15," Ross recalls, "this big, fat kid. They kind of hired me because I looked bigger and more muscled than I actually was. I was sort of the bouncer, ...
- Times' new feature on LA history - Los Angeles Times Blogs
Today's Home section introduces a new feature by Sam Watters. The first installment looks at the history of the Huntington estate in San Marino. The Shorb home after extensive remodeling. Watters writes: When the current mortgage crisis ends, someone ...
- Victoria's secrets (McKinney Courier-Gazette)
SNL: The comedianne and "Saturday Night Live" alum says she loves to make her audiences laugh and that's all. MCKINNEY - Victoria Jackson's first big break was on the Tonight Show when she did handstands and recited poetry in additional to her stand-up routine.
- AREA SHORTS (Brainerd Dispatch)
[BAXTER - Legacy Five will perform a gospel concert at 7:30 p.m. Friday at Heritage Assembly of God Church, 13242 Berrywood Drive, in Baxter.
- Acclaimed native shares tragedies, struggles in work - Hattiesburg American
Acclaimed native shares tragedies, struggles in workHattiesburg American, MS - 14 minutes agoTrethewey's latest collection of poetry "Native Guard," published in 2006, confronts this conflicting sense of displacement and what she calls "nostos," the ...
- Volunteer achievements (Odessa American)
Birthday décor was in full swing Thursday morning, as an Odessa organization celebrated 30 years of existence and two women who've been instrumental to the city through their volunteer efforts.
- Music Review: One Day As A Lion (Blogcritics.org)
Gritty, funky rock from former Rage Against the Machine frontman Zack de la Rocha. One Day As A Lion is a duo, made up of former Rage Against the Machine frontman Zack de la Rocha and former Mars Volta drummer Jon Theodore. Zack sings/raps and plays keyboards and Jon drums and they produce a fuzzy rock sound with Zack’s traditional bare-knuckled poetry. It is a perfect setup for the street ...
- HAPPENINGS IN DAVIDSON - Nashville Tennessean
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- The 10 most popular misconceptions about Oscar Wilde - guardian.co.uk
The 10 most popular misconceptions about Oscar Wildeguardian.co.uk, UK - 2 hours ago... pose of an effete young man, but he went up as a scholar to Magdalen and came down with a double first in classics and the Newdigate prize for poetry. ...
- Wednesday's Agenda, July 23 - Miami Herald
Items contributed must be received at least two days in advance at Calendar Desk, The Miami Herald, 1 Herald Plaza, Fifth Floor Newsroom, Miami, FL 33132-1693. Or e-mail your items to newscalendar@MiamiHerald.com . No faxes, please. For a complete ...
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