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- Michelle, My Belle - Slate
In the cover package on Barack Obama's race and the presidential election, a piece on his wife, Michelle, finds that she "has morphed into a repository of emotion, an Oprah-esque icon of inspirational womanhood who promises the same feel-good message ...
- Appaloosa Movie Review - NewsBlaze
Appaloosa Movie ReviewNewsBlaze, CA - 4 hours ago... butter,' struggles with mastering the dictionary along with the poetry of Emerson. Appaloosa is more fascinating character study than cowboy adventure, ...
- Control: The fate of Joy Division's Ian Curtis - World Socialist Web Site
World Socialist Web SiteControl: The fate of Joy Division's Ian CurtisWorld Socialist Web Site, MI - 16 minutes agoHe also has developed a talent for poetry, which he shares with his friends. In real life, Curtis was awarded a scholarship to attend the King’s School, ...
- Poets, Actors Celebrate Lincoln's Poetic Side - Media For Freedom
Poets, Actors Celebrate Lincoln's Poetic SideMedia For Freedom, Nepal - Oct 7, 2008Not all of the readings were strictly poetry. Academy Award-nominee Joan Allen had the honor of reading a speech that Lincoln delivered in November 1863 at ...
- What’s there to do at 93? Publish a book - Hunterdon Review
What’s there to do at 93? Publish a bookHunterdon Review, NJ - 7 hours agoHe paints, as well as translates poetry, for a hobby, and participated in the design of the book’s cover. Hoyt is somewhat of a Renaissance man. ...
- Singer Laura Marling's refined songwriting defies her youth - Boston Globe
Boston GlobeSinger Laura Marling's refined songwriting defies her youthBoston Globe, United States - 6 minutes ago"I love the idea of people treasuring something," she says. "It adds another dimension to the experience, at least that was the hope. ...
- Time for Media and Feminists to Penetrate Prostitution: On The Issues Magazine Challenges Stale Stereotypes (PR Newswire via Yahoo! News)
Prostitution penetrated the news in a major way in recent months -- from ex-governor Eliot Spitzer of New York and his paid binges with women to the suicide of DC madam Deborah Jeane Palfrey and the Showtime fluff of Secret Diary of A Call Girl.
- Breathing new life into a town tradition - Clackamas Review
Breathing new life into a town traditionClackamas Review, OR - 1 hour agoHamilton said Pat DuVal, one of the organizers of the event, told her that anyone who reads their own or someone else’s poetry will get a certificate signed ...
- Author Spotlight: David Tilley of Fairport (Rochester Democrat and Chronicle)
David Tilley of Fairport is involved in two collaborations that explore the idea of multiple authorship. Most recent publication: Two Trigram Myths were published in Contemporary Haibun Online.
- Cover Stories: Jenny Colgan; Alistair Cooke; Booker longlist (Independent)
* At the first Literary Salon at Shoreditch House, London, on Tuesday, Jenny Colgan revealed that she is working on a "secret book" that she will release under a pseudonym in September. "It's for all those people who loved books set in boarding schools as kids and wonder why nobody writes them any more," she said.
- Meet & Greet meets Arts Zone arts walk - Toledo Blade
Meet & Greet meets Arts Zone arts walkToledo Blade, OH - 3 hours agoBeyond Words, a show of work combining poetry with visual arts, opens with a reception from 6 to 9 pm Aug. 21 in the Parkwood Gallery, 1838 Parkwood Ave. ...
- Hidden inspirations for two books - Vancouver Sun
Vancouver SunHidden inspirations for two booksVancouver Sun, Canada - 3 hours agoWhat was the spark for this particular book?" Over the last two weeks, I put the questions to Patrick Lane, who is known for a lifetime of poetry and an ...
- Goings on About Town: Readings and Talks (The New Yorker)
MUSEUM OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK The journalist Nicholas Lemann talks politics with Theodore C. Sorensen, former adviser to President John F. Kennedy. (Museum of the City of New York, Fifth Ave. at 103rd St. 212-534-1672. Oct. 1 at 6:30.) SYMPHONY SPACE Salman Rushdie, the editor of “The Best . . .
- Palestinians plan big funeral for poet Darwish - Reuters
RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) - Mahmoud Darwish, whose poetry encapsulated the Palestinian cause, will get the equivalent of a state funeral in the West Bank on Tuesday -- an honor only previously accorded to PLO leader Yasser Arafat. Tributes for ...
- Glencairn Balfour Paul - Daily Telegraph
GLENCAIRN BALFOUR PAUL, the former diplomat and Arabist who has died aged 90, was Ambassador to Iraq, Jordan and Tunisia between 1969 and 1977; before joining the Diplomatic Service in 1955 he was a member of the Sudan Political Service. After the ...
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