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- Her Own Society (The New Yorker)
In April of 1862, Emily Dickinson wrote to a stranger, initiating a fervent twenty-four-year correspondence, in the course of which they managed to meet only twice. Thomas Wentworth Higginson, thirty-eight, was a man of letters, a clergyman, a fitness enthusiast, a celebrated abolitionist, and a champion of . . .
- Mayor Mike's Battle For Life And City (Hartford Courant)
Mayor Mike Peters was a bon vivant of a mayor. From 1993 to 2001, at the smallest of openings -- a carwash, the morning shift at McDonald's, an envelope -- in the city of Hartford, Mayor Mike was there, arms thrown wide, slapping backs, sipping drinks and kissing babies. But now the mayor is battling cirrhosis.
- Joyce Carol Oates enters 'tabloid hell' - Arlington Heights Daily Herald
Some of Oates' books feel as if she wrote them as dares to herself. This novel, her 37th, is one of the wildest. Oates sets out to solve a fictionalized version of the JonBenet Ramsey murder, with skating prodigy "Bliss" Rampike replacing the real ...
- TV newsman Bob Schieffer talks to the Star-Telegram about his new ... - Fort Worth Star Telegram
TV newsman Bob Schieffer talks to the Star-Telegram about his new ...Fort Worth Star Telegram, TX - 3 hours agoI said at one point in the book, you know, I’m like a cowboy around horses. They don’t have to be good horses or bad horses. I just like to be around horses ...
- Look for the lit in the obits - Winnipeg Free Press
Look for the lit in the obitsWinnipeg Free Press, Canada - 3 hours agoI came to love the written word and more importantly began to understand how good poetry and superior works of prose reflecting the human condition can be a ...
- Poetry workshop set in Newport (Newport News-Times)
Willamette Writers Coast Branch brings nationally recognized poet and poetry teacher Ingrid Wendt to lead a poetry workshop called “Beginnings and Endings” from 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 7 at the Newport Public Library. The free workshop is open to poetry lovers of all ages.
- Des to quit countdown - MSN UK News
Des O'Connor's days as the host of Countdown are numbered after announcing he's quitting the show in November. The 76-year-old, who replaced Des Lynam as the anchor, who stepped in following the death of Richard Whiteley, said he had no plans to ...
- Obituary: Paul Overy (Guardian Unlimited)
Obituary: Art and architecture historian with a flair for accessible, lucid writing
- Pulse contributors for July 22: - Herald-Mail
Lisa McManus is 18 and attends adult education classes at the Washington County Family Center. She has been writing poetry since she was 13. She is Mormon and enjoys writing poetry about her spirituality.
- Darren Aronofsky’s Noah - /FILM
/FILMDarren Aronofsky’s Noah/FILM, MA - 2 hours agoAronofsky won a United Nations poetry competition at his Manhattan Beach, Brooklyn school. The poem was about the end of the world as seen through the eyes ...
- Brocton-Portland Festival fun, despite rain - Evening Observer
Brocton-Portland Festival fun, despite rainEvening Observer, NY - 11 minutes agoWith the help of her sisters, Sharon Barone and Wanda Kelley, Janeen set up exhibits that accompanied the book she said incorporated the thoughts and poetry ...
- Farewell gift for writer - three years late (The New Zealand Herald)
As Bill Payne lay in his hospital bed in 2005, his body shutting down slowly, he was unable to do the one thing he loved - write. But one man's perseverance is about to make up for that.
- Iran's expatriate poets speak out, in English and Farsi (The Daily Star Lebannon)
Since the Islamic Revolution in 1979, thousands of intellectuals, activists and poets have left Iran, many fleeing to Europe and the United States. A new book brings together the work of 18 Iranian poets from this diaspora to share their experiences with a wider audience.
- Throwing gas on the oil fire - Los Angeles Times
Throwing gas on the oil fireLos Angeles Times, CA - 1 hour ago"He was 46 years old now, in April 1920, and he made nothing in particular, neither butter nor shoes nor poetry, but he was nimble in the calling of selling ...
- We Love Everyday People - Chicagoist
ChicagoistWe Love Everyday PeopleChicagoist, IL - 3 hours agoTonight and tomorrow night you can witness the locally born, bred, and based HBO Def Poet in the flesh, performing various selections from his latest poetry ...
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