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- Juan Gabriel Vásquez talks to Richard Lea (Guardian Unlimited)
Juan Gabriel Vásquez talks to Richard Lea about how getting away from Colombia allowed him to write about it, and his ongoing quest for new fictional territory
- Lost Dylan poetry surfaces with '60s Hollywood photos - International Herald Tribune
David Remnick, the editor of The New Yorker, said that this autumn the magazine would publish two of the poems and perhaps a photograph or two. Christopher Ricks, a professor of the humanities at Boston University and the author of "Dylan's Visions ...
- Fall arts preview: 'Chicago Songs' intended as poetry to ear (The Sacramento Bee)
This composer, a 38-year-old Fresno native, is the same age poet Carl Sandburg was when he wrote and published the "Chicago Poems," which Erickson used as the inspiration for his "Chicago Songs." Kurt Erickson, the composer of "Chicago Songs," says he was first intrigued by the idea of creating a song set using an eclectic mix of 20th century American texts.
- NOW YOU KNOW | Keeping teens informed (Lancaster Online)
Beyond booksHead to Ephrata Public Library, 550 S. Reading Road, for these cool programs: • 3 to 5 p.m. Monday, Sept. 15: The Teen Gamers Club invites you to play Xbox and enjoy free snacks. • 3 to 4 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 16: The Teen Book Discussion Group wi...
- Writing Workshop - The Coast.ca
Writing WorkshopThe Coast.ca, Canada - 22 minutes agoMs. Wesley is the author of To My Someday Child (1975), the first book of poetry published by a Black poet in Nova Scotia. ...
- Among the Ghosts: Heroes and Grand Plans (New York Times)
Gertrude Margaret Lowthian Bell, the British adventurer and diplomat, was as decisive in the creation of the modern Iraqi state as any single person.
- Literary world mourns Wallace's suicide - Biloxi Sun Herald
NEW YORK -- The literary world is in grief for David Foster Wallace, an author of seemingly unstoppable curiosity, imagination and ambition who apparently killed himself. Readers are seeking out his work, including his 1,000-page novel "Infinite Jest ...
- Opposites attract in the two acts of 'Fantasticks' - The Times of Trenton - NJ.com
Opposites attract in the two acts of 'Fantasticks'The Times of Trenton - NJ.com, NJ - 13 minutes agoThey are overcome by exuberant expectation for what they've never experienced themselves but have read about in poetry and novels. ...
- 'Bachelor Brothers' Bed and Breakfast' a great summer read; - Owen Sound Sun Times
'Bachelor Brothers' Bed and Breakfast' a great summer read;Owen Sound Sun Times, Canada - 6 hours agoHe says, "I love the phrase 'learning by heart,' especially when it is applied to poetry, because it seems such a perfect description of the process of ...
- Mandela’s 90th b’day celebrated - Hindustan Times
Anti-apartheid activist and former president of South Africa Nelson Mandela’s 90th birthday was celebrated at Springdales, Dhaula Kuan, on Friday. The event, which concluded the school’s Africa Week celebrations, began with a speech by Principal ...
- Andrew Motion: Noises Off - The Independent
One million pages were read on the online poetry archive – poetryarchive.org – last month, an amazing figure. The appetite for poetry is there, but there's a real problem with delivery. On 4 July I took over the chairmanship of the Museums ...
- Man says he's had sex with 1000 cars and he's not sick - News.com.au
A MAN who claims to have had sex with 1000 cars, writing them poems and singing to them, has defended his "romantic" feelings towards vehicles. Edward Smith, who lives with his current "girlfriend" - a white Volkswagen Beetle named Vanilla, insisted ...
- The Care and Feeding of Fiction - Slate
In the predictable universe of the illness memoir, doctors save by diagnosis and fail by misdiagnosis, alleviate symptoms or unintentionally increase them, order too many tests or refuse to test enough. Patients are the authors of these accounts, but ...
- Colorado looking for new chief poet - Broomfield Enterprise
Colorado looking for new chief poetBroomfield Enterprise, CO - 10 hours agoThe position was created to promote an appreciation of poetry and to honor outstanding Colorado poets. The laureate will serve as an advocate for poetry, ...
- Castrating Antigone: The Cliche of Terror in Marco Bellocchio's ... - RedOrbit
Castrating Antigone: The Cliche of Terror in Marco Bellocchio's ...RedOrbit, TX - 15 minutes agoThe emergence of Sophocles's text in the final scene of the film is read through Pasolini's concept of the cinema of poetry and Deleuze's notion of the ...
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