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- A book about Ronald McDonald House (Queens Courier)
After stepping into the Ronald McDonald House of Long Island, children’s author Babette Douglas found the inspiration for her latest book.
- Why We Love Ryan Adams's Crazy Tumblr - Gawker
Why do I get the feeling that if I don't stop reblogging Ryan Adams , I might get stabbed en route to the Beatrice? (Or get stabbed inside, when Emily Brill shows up.) Young Manhattanite and former Gawker mastcot Andrew Krucoff concedes that Ryan ...
- John Updike, Pittsburgher Stewart O'Nan have new novels on fall list (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)
After a two-week break, I'm resuming the hunt for the interesting books of the fall. It's shaping up as the busiest season for new releases ever. ...
- Bag a book - This is West Country
THE National Year of Reading is encouraging people to escape to the outdoors with a good book this summer. And eager readers can carry their blockbusters to the beach in style with the Devon Libraries’ 'Book Bag for Life'. The stylish reusable jute ...
- Anne d’Harnoncourt dies (Philly.com)
Anne d’Harnoncourt, leader of the Philadelphia Museum of Art since 1982, died Sunday at age 64.
- Chorus, guests offer fine program - SouthCoastToday.com
Chorus, guests offer fine programSouthCoastToday.com, MA - 3 hours agoThe poetry of the music is a metaphoric allusion to the spiritual and mystical nature of life. Baritone soloist Donald Wilkinson, was highlighted in this ...
- Andrew Motion appointed new chair of the Museums, Libraries and ... - 24dash
24dashAndrew Motion appointed new chair of the Museums, Libraries and ...24dash, UK - 1 hour agoBorn in London and educated at Oxford University, Motion became a lecturer at Hull University (1976-1981), publishing his first collection of poetry in 1977 ...
- On the Shelf: Photos, prose pay homage (Traverse City Record-Eagle)
Three recent coffee table books relating to northern Michigan are impressive in their scope.
- Great Scot — Let the games begin - The Stamford Times
Great Scot — Let the games beginThe Stamford Times, CT - 7 hours agoThe modern-day games include a lot of tradition in the form of Scottish music, poetry, sing-a-longs, Scottish and Celtic food and vendors, clan gatherings, ...
- How a shy poet was spellbound by the Beast - Guardian Unlimited
It was among the unlikeliest literary friendships of the 20th century. On the one hand, Fernando Pessoa, the painfully shy Portuguese poet, master of pseudonyms and melancholy, whose literary genius went all but unrecognised in his lifetime. On the ...
- Beatnix closing doors today with final 'bash' - Waco Tribune Herald
Beatnix closing doors today with final 'bash'Waco Tribune Herald, TX - 1 hour agoA lot of people no longer will have a forum for their poetry.” Longtime customer Laura Walton said she knows the economy hurt Beatnix, “but the location ...
- Turning 40 is a big deal for the Northwest Chamber Chorus - Seattle Post Intelligencer
Turning 40 is a big deal for the Northwest Chamber ChorusSeattle Post Intelligencer - 18 minutes agoThe text is derived from poetry of Horace, one of the most famous poets in Rome, who lived in the era of Julius Caesar. The title, "Carpe Diem," is taken ...
- Lesléa Newman Talks Butch-Femme at BMC - Bi-College News
Lesléa Newman Talks Butch-Femme at BMCBi-College News, PA - 7 hours agoNewman began with a poem entitled “Not What You’d Expect” from her book, “The Femme Mystique.” As part of a collection of poems and narratives about the ...
- A fictional photographer, back in focus - Boston Globe
Julie Hecht's fiction is narrated by an unnamed female photographer, married but childless, who approaches middle age with a psychic dread that extends beyond herself and out into the world. Readers were introduced to her in Hecht's much-lauded debut ...
- Cohen adds another show at Toronto stop (Toronto Star)
Good news for those who've been crying because they don't have tickets to see Leonard Cohen at the Sony Centre next month. Cohen has belatedly decided to do a fourth Toronto show on Monday, June 9.
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