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- Love in a Tsunami's Aftermath: Assarat's 'Wonderful Town' (The New York Sun)
'Wonderful Town," directed by Thai filmmaker Aditya Assarat, takes place in a seaside town in the aftermath of the 2004 tsunami. Though tourism has tanked, some rebuilding is in progress, and yet a certain malaise seems to have settled after the storm. This potent setting and mood is the backdrop for a fragile love story, but the stillness and vaguely drawn characters doom the movie to ...
- Even the Most Romantic of Poets Can Sometimes Be Awfully Hard of Heart (New York Times)
The great German Romantic Heinrich Heine was a ?torn poet,? allergic to beauty even as he produced so much of it.
- Editor confronts genocide in 'Senselessness' (San Francisco Chronicle)
Senselessness By Horacio Castellanos Moya; translated by Katherine Silver New Directions Press; 142 pages; $15.95 paperback One approach to discovering exciting new Latin American writers is to scout for contemporary authors whom Roberto Bolaño counted among...
- In my opinion: Primary pupils have the write stuff -- as gaeilge - Irish Independent
In my opinion: Primary pupils have the write stuff -- as gaeilgeIrish Independent, Ireland - 1 hour agoWe are delighted to see a wide range of books, as Gaeilge, written by children during the past two years, including novels, short stories, poetry books, ...
- The Complete Works of WH Auden: Prose, Volume III 1949-1955 edited ... - Times Online
The Complete Works of WH Auden: Prose, Volume III 1949-1955 edited ...Times Online, UK - 52 minutes agoHe goes on: “When, at the age of 15, I began to be consciously interested in poetry, my taste was formed by reading Walter de la Mare's anthology Come ...
- Book review by Will Podmore - National Secular Society
Book review by Will PodmoreNational Secular Society, UK - 1 hour agoIt has an introduction, ‘Flicks and this fleeting life’, by Harrison himself and another by his colleague the filmmaker Peter Symes, ‘It’s all poetry to me’ ...
- Mike Huckabee - New York Observer
Democratic Assemblyman Dov Hikind of Brooklyn will introduce former Republican Governor Mike Huckabee at a Manhattan dinner tonight honoring the 60th anniversary of the founding of Israel. According to the press release, headlined "HIKIND & HUCKABEE ...
- Poetry review: 'Work' interprets the world (San Francisco Chronicle)
Interpretive Work By Elizabeth Bradfield Arktoi Books/Red Hen Press; 111 pages; $20 paperback Elizabeth Bradfield thinks hard about being a naturalist in her new book of poetry, "Interpretive Work." Many of Bradfield's poems provide some of the easygoing...
- Calendar: Drum-bugle competition takes the field at Whitmer - Toledo Blade
Calendar: Drum-bugle competition takes the field at WhitmerToledo Blade, OH - 11 hours agoCharles H. Wright Museum of African American History: 315 E. Warren Ave., Detroit; 313-494-5800; Chase Gallery: AT&T Gallery: Textural Rhythms ...
- Scientists Surprised to Find Earth's Biosphere Booming - Slashdot
Scientists Surprised to Find Earth's Biosphere BoomingSlashdot - 2 hours agoI'd like the shouting part. by Yetihehe (971185) I will write poetry, I'm really bad at this :D "Ode to extinctions: O thy, which is extinct, ...
- Father, daughter co-authors win book award - Canadian Jewish News
Father, daughter co-authors win book awardCanadian Jewish News, Canada - 1 hour ago... Jewish family life against the backdrop of a drab, often hypocritical and sometimes overtly anti-Semitic Communist society.” The prize for poetry went ...
- Sunken Garden Poetry & Music Festival - Boston Globe
Sunken Garden Poetry & Music Festival Three-time US poet laureate Robert Pinsky kicks off the 2008 Sunken Garden Poetry & Music Festival with poetic musical group Merge. The festival runs every other Wednesday through Aug. 20 and showcases world ...
- Literary Circle marks 125 years - Sentinel
BLUE EARTH — The year was 1883 and all across America, literary circles were springing up — including in Blue Earth — as part of New York’s Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle. Women joined to become educated since college and even high ...
- Experimental Chicago Theater breeezes into French Quarter's Voodoo ... - New Orleans Times-Picayune Blogs
Two theatrical blasts from the Windy City -- one challenging, one a romp -- can now be seen at the newly christened Voodoo Mystere Lounge in the French Quarter. Courtesy of Found Objects Theatre of Chicago Kevlyn Hayes, Chris Wallinger and Sparlend O ...
- 40 years for teenagers’ savage attack on Goths - The Herald
40 years for teenagers’ savage attack on GothsThe Herald, UK - 2 minutes agoHe described Miss Lancaster as a caring young woman who wrote poetry, read books and had charmed many. Both Herbert and Harris had previous convictions ...
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