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- Amazon's embracing of small publishers comes at a price - Guardian Blogs
Small publishers might not appreciate the irony of the above tag line ... It's hardly news that Amazon has profoundly changed the way we buy books. With each passing year an increasing number of readers forsake traditional bookstores and turn to ...
- US lesbian activist Del Martin dies at 87 - Monsters and Critics
San Francisco - US Lesbian rights pioneer Del Martin, who married her partner of 55 years in one of California first same-sex weddings, died Wednesday in San Francisco of natural causes. She was 87. 'I am devastated, but I take some solace in knowing ...
- Poetry That Will Touch You and Keep You Thinking About Your World -- New Poetry Book is Written in Response to ... (PrimeNewswire via Yahoo! Finance)
JACKSON, Mississippi, Aug. 18, 2008 -- Poetry fans and literature enthusiasts are in for an unforgettable journey of words conceptualized by author Marcus Uganda White as Xlibris releases his new poetry book Morning Come Quick.
- Oates' latest novel a daring work of dark imagination - News-Leader.com
Oates' latest novel a daring work of dark imaginationNews-Leader.com, MO - Jul 27, 2008The way to handle broken narrators, perhaps, is to try to find poetry in their plain speech. But Oates has already done that -- her "Zombie" is a brilliant ...
- Band of pranksters loses loyal soldier - Miami Herald
This much is known about the late Sgt. Skeeter: At 49, he was the youngest member of Coxie's Army, the shadowy North Miami cabal that each Halloween impales a pumpkin atop the town library steeple. He was a father, a husband, an electrician, a church ...
- Homeless girl's poem is put to song, for benefit - Boston Globe
Boston GlobeHomeless girl's poem is put to song, for benefitBoston Globe, United States - 2 hours agoFor pianist Andrea Surova of Bedford, songwriting developed as a natural extension of the poetry she began writing at age 10. As a result, she has an even ...
- Celebrating the female - Tonight
Celebrating the femaleTonight, South Africa - 23 hours agoOpen Mic Poetry session with Gcina Mhlophe as anchor artist (admission free) plus all-stops-out Battle of the Women DJs in the Grand Foyer on Sunday August ...
- Get comfy for poetry - London Informer
London InformerGet comfy for poetryLondon Informer, UK - 1 hour agoA bench dedicated to Martin 'Ginger' Stevenson of Warwick Road, Earl's Court, who was stabbed to death in Seagrave Road, Fulham, last year, ...
- Tuesday, August 19: ‘Celebrate the Word’ poetry festival opening ... - Metromix
Tuesday, August 19: ‘Celebrate the Word’ poetry festival opening ...Metromix, IL - 2 hours agoTuesday's frenzied slam by Da' Poetry Lounge will kick off the fest with an avalanche of impassioned wordplay. (Through Aug. 26.) Why: Poetry on your ...
- New in Paperback: A travel writer's spell-binding tale - Cleveland Plain Dealer
Colin Thubron spent eight months on foot and aboard bus, train, hired car and donkey cart to follow in the Shadow of the Silk Road (Harper Perennial, 344 pp., $15.95). His 7,000 miles, moving east to west, took him through some of the most remote ...
- So much to do, so little time - The State
Walk for Life: Thousands will hit the streets today for the First Ladies’ Walk for Life ... Steps Against Breast Cancer. The three-mile walk begins at 9 a.m. at Finlay Park and winds through Columbia. It’s not too late to participate; just arrive ...
- Writing colloquium to be at UI next week (The Iowa City Press-Citizen)
The 'Writing Science at the Writing University' colloquium will be from Tuesday to Friday at the University of Iowa.
- researchers dig into times of slave poet - New York Daily News
New York Daily Newsresearchers dig into times of slave poetNew York Daily News, NY - Jul 21, 2008... a slave owned by the Lloyd family who became one of the first published African-American authors when a newspaper printed one of his poems in 1760. ...
- Poet Ahmed Faraz buried in Islamabad - Guardian Unlimited
The Pakistani poet Ahmed Faraz, who died on Monday night after kidney problems, has been buried in Islamabad. The ceremony was attended by thousands of mourners, including politicians, writers, students and members of the poet's family. Information ...
- Off the shelf: Bookslut talks to Miriam Toews, meet Al Gore's ... - Nationalpost.com
The fine folks at Bookslut talk to novelist Miriam Toews about her new book The Flying Troutmans. Who's the world's best-selling author? Stephen King, J.K. Rowling? It's actually suspense writer James Patterson who apparently outsells John Grisham ...
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