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- Dance review: A turn in the spotlight (Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune)
Who knew that Abdo Sayegh is still a virtuosic dancer of tremendous grace, kinetic articulation and emotional complexity? In Minnesota Dance Theater, he's largely sidelined when he's not encased in the "Nutcracker" costume and choreography.
- Bernardine Evaristo - Guardian Unlimited
Bernardine Evaristo: 'Writing? I just fell into it' What was your favourite book as a child and why? I have almost no memory of books before my teenage years. Isn't that strange? I think it's because all my books came from the library so there was no ...
- Arcadia: tangling with Lord Byron among the chandeliers - Daily Telegraph
Tom Stoppard's 1993 play Arcadia is, in many ways, perfect for the Pitlochry Festival Theatre summer season (during which one can famously "stay six days, see six plays"). For a start, as it is set in a grand country house in Derbyshire (in 1809 and ...
- Upcoming Cherry Hill Library events (Courier-Post)
Check out these upcoming Cherry Hill Library events. Contact wrhodes@gannett.com if you'd like your library's events featured on the Courier-Post website.
- Honoring Two Masters - Newsweek
Honoring Two MastersNewsweek - 42 minutes agoBoth these great filmmakers, in their radically different way, made art out of despair, poetry out of pessimism. But where Bergman, the lapsed Protestant, ...
- Palestinians plan 'state' funeral for poet Darwish (AFP via Yahoo! News)
Palestinians were making plans on Monday for a funeral of pomp and ceremony for their "national" poet Mahmud Darwish, whose writings captured the spirit of the Palestinian struggle.
- Community Calendar - July 8 - Akron Beacon Journal
Community Calendar - July 8Akron Beacon Journal, OH - 54 minutes agoTeen Program: Poetry Cafe — 6:30 pm, Akron-Summit County Public Library, Fairlawn-Bath branch, 3101 Smith Road, Fairlawn. 330-666-4888. ...
- Letters for July 21, 2008 - Oneonta Daily Star
Letters for July 21, 2008Oneonta Daily Star, NY - 5 hours agoMark Twain wrote not only poetry and short stories, he addressed politics, racism, humanitarianism, capitalism and many other issues that faced the ordinary ...
- Africa: Prof. Osundare Wins Continent's Most Prestigious Poetry Award (AllAfrica.com)
The jury of the 2008 Tchicaya U Tamsi Award has chosen distinguished Nigerian poet, writer and varsity don, Pro f. Niyi Osundare as the 2008 laureate.
- 'Tenured radical' tries to revive American professors' group (Times & Transcript)
In his professorial attire and flowing, Zeus-like beard, Cary Nelson would look right at home behind a lectern, expounding on obscure poets. He even resembles one of the leading influences on his scholarship - Karl Marx.
- I'm a chicky chappy - Guardian Blogs
Joanna Trollope made the point on this blog recently that everyone knows that so-called "chick lit" is not just for girls. " We know men read these books ," she said, and it's true. But not only do we men read these books (Kinsella, Colgan, Jewell et ...
- Stop being a recycling polluter - Memphis Commercial Appeal
The future of the unmanned Agricenter public recycling drop-off center on Moore Road at Germantown Parkway is seriously threatened by individuals and businesses that leave cardboard, trash and other material on the ground around the containers ...
- Stolen 17th century First Folio Shakespeare recovered - Telegraph.co.uk
Stolen 17th century First Folio Shakespeare recoveredTelegraph.co.uk, United Kingdom - Jul 11, 2008... by the 10th Century scholar Aelfric that were printed in 1566, a first edition version of Beowulf printed in 1815 and a 1612 book of maps and poetry. ...
- SF Chronicle Political Writer Enthuses Over Cosmetic JFK/Obama ... - NewsBusters
SF Chronicle Political Writer Enthuses Over Cosmetic JFK/Obama ...NewsBusters - Jul 13, 2008Both Harvard-educated men wrote inspirational books, struggled with a perceived lack of experience, and a heritage (Catholic for Kennedy, African American ...
- Garrison Keillor wants ‘just enough success to keep working’ - Enterprise News
Garrison Keillor wants ‘just enough success to keep working’Enterprise News, MA - 2 hours agoI know you’re writing all the time, from poetry to columns, but do you have your next book project in the works? GK: I’ve started a new novel called ...
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