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- Too Soon for Iraq Dramas? - Gawker
Why isn’t George Packer ’s terrific little play Betrayed — about the three pro-American Iraqis who don’t quite get what they need from America – not doing better? (It opened in February at the Culture Project in Soho, extended its run for a ...
- Alejandro Escovedo - Crawdaddy
Alejandro EscovedoCrawdaddy - 39 minutes agoLyrically, the record is strictly autobiographical, a life story told with the stark and gritty poetry that’s become Escovedo’s calling card. ...
- Cosmic Realism by Francesca Mari - New Republic (subscription)
Cosmic Realism by Francesca MariNew Republic (subscription), DC - 21 minutes agoThis prose promises to be experienced as poetry. It engrosses when it engages. Cosmic realism is not altogether new. Its modern ancestors were, ...
- Art shock troops mock Russian establishment (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
Carrying bags of stolen groceries, Oleg Vorotnikov takes out the batteries of his mobile phone before entering the secret headquarters of his underground art collective on the outskirts of Moscow.
- Prince working on 1st book as he turns 50 - Reuters India
Prince working on 1st book as he turns 50Reuters India, India - 53 minutes agoThe book, to be released in September, will feature poetry by Prince, photographs by Hollywood's Randee St. Nicholas who was given backstage access during ...
- Complete List of Nominees for 2008 Emmys (E! Online via Yahoo! News)
The pedigreed HBO miniseries John Adams nabbed a leading 23 nominations this morning for the 60th Annual Primetime Emmys, followed by 30 Rock with 17 nominations and Mad Men with 16.
- Author : Carrabba's Italian Grill - Earthtimes (press release)
Author : Carrabba's Italian GrillEarthtimes (press release), UK - 43 minutes agoTAMPA, Fla. , July 2 -- A famous Scottish author once said that "wine is bottled poetry." In an artful twist of the cork, Carrabba's Italian Grill is giving ...
- Durrell and I - Egypt Today
W hen the name Lawrence Durrell is mentioned, one immediately thinks of his Alexandria Quartet, the series of novels that brought the writer his greatest fame. Durrell was also a poet; in fact, his poetry emerged long before his novels, the first of ...
- THE MEMBER-ABILIA AMONG US - New York Post
Treasure-troves of "member-abilia" - Napoleon's privates, Einstein's eyeballs and other morbid collectibles - are being kept under lock and key, prized like family heirlooms, right in our own back yard. An elderly New Jersey ophthalmologist owns ...
- At the library: (West Roxbury Transcript)
Check out what's happening at the West Roxbury and Roslindale Branch Libraries:
- Graduate wins literary prize with poetry, essays from blog - Examiner.com
Graduate wins literary prize with poetry, essays from blogExaminer.com - 2 hours agoShe also submitted poetry and critical essays. The prize, which is worth $67481 this year, is awarded annually at Washington College to the graduating ...
- Stargazing on Hawaii's Mauna Kea - Los Angeles Times
Stargazing on Hawaii's Mauna KeaLos Angeles Times, CA - 1 hour ago"I just love this so much," said Livermore, a big, shambling figure in a parka, a strange, mounded silhouette in the dark. "I've been thinking about time ...
- Persian: difficult but loveable - The News - International
Persian: difficult but loveableThe News - International, Pakistan - 6 hours ago“In order to understand Iqbal’s, Saadi’s and Roomi’s poetry, you must know Persian,” points out Dr Afsar. Azhar Gillani studied Persian for this very reason ...
- Mother and daughter team produce book of absurdly silly poems - Marin Independent-Journal
Mother and daughter team produce book of absurdly silly poemsMarin Independent-Journal, CA - 1 hour agoPublishers Weekly says they reflect her "recognizably European dark wit." "I thought I was going to be a serious poet," Gerda Rovetch recalls. ...
- Creators of cool - Boston Globe
REYKJAVĂŤK - The Thursday before last, Olafur Ragnar Grimsson, president of Iceland, welcomed artists, organizers, and others to his tidy residence on a narrow peninsula to shake hands and sip wine. Outdoors, terns darted above a calm bay and the ...
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