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- Uncommon Senselessness | Horacio Castellanos Moya's novel -- his first translated into English -- views atrocity ... (Pittsburgh City Paper)
The genocide that accompanied Guatemala's long-running civil war has been called "the silent holocaust." From about 1960 until 1996, when peace accords were signed, an estimated 200,000 civilians died. Most were indigenous people of Mayan descent, and most perished, often horrifically,... By Bill O'Driscoll.
- Literary worthies part of reading series (Houston Chronicle)
Novelists Ann Patchett, Richard Price and Geraldine Brooks are among literary worthies taking to the stage in coming months as the Margarett Root Brown Reading Series embarks on its 28th season.
- Great British Watercolors - Wall Street Journal
An English friend maintains that the British are not a visual people. "We like words," he says, "and gardens. That's why all those British conceptual artists who do things with trees and rocks are so popular. But what we're really good at is language ...
- Touching Base: Weak ending in store (New York Daily News)
Instead of October drama to punctuate the legendary history of Yankee Stadium, it appears the final act on the grandest stage will be a meaningless anticlimax with the Yankees and Orioles playing out the string.
- Step right up to McCain's three-ring circus - Portsmouth Herald News
Step right up to McCain's three-ring circusPortsmouth Herald News, NH - 1 hour agoHis metaphorical campaign poetry has been matched by McCain's blunt policy prose that can be reduced to (1) cut taxes more, especially for the rich and hope ...
- Celebrate Women: 'Rachel Rising' program set for Thursday - Maryville Daily Times
Celebrate Women: 'Rachel Rising' program set for ThursdayMaryville Daily Times, TN - 3 minutes agoIt was just a spew, it was a waterfall of poetry. The following three were written over two weeks after that in the same kind of frenzy. ...
- McCain: the country's foremost progressive champion - Western Standard- Shotgun Blog
McCain: the country's foremost progressive championWestern Standard- Shotgun Blog, Canada - 2 hours agoLove-struck "journalists" slobbering over their keyboards as they pen devotional romance poetry for their Messiah and broadcast news personalities trying to ...
- Nixon and Moore Join Fiennes, McGovern and Neeson July 26-27 in Gate|Beckett (Playbill)
A starry line-up has been assembled for the July 26-27 readings of the poetry and prose of Samuel Beckett, part of the current Gate|Beckett production presented by the Lincoln Center Festival.
- A "different" musical experience - This is Wiltshire.co.uk
A "different" musical experienceThis is Wiltshire.co.uk, UK - 21 hours ago... combined to produce a programme of concert pieces for Flute and Piano, together with anecdotes, poetry, prose and sketches about music and musicians. ...
- Charities benefit from local book sales - Derry Today
Charities benefit from local book salesDerry Today, UK - 45 minutes agoBy Staff reporter Guildhall Press last week presented Julieann Campbell, 'Journal' reporter and co-editor of 'Harrowing of the Heart - The Poetry of Bloody ...
- Dating today is a menage a tech (The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles)
Dating used to be so simple and straightforward. And yes, romantic! You'd be at a party and spot someone across the room. Your eyes would meet. You'd glide toward each other, exchange repartee and, after dancing the night away, head back to your place for a good old-fashioned kiss goodnight.
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- Celebrants Transforming Funeral Service in Australia - American Chronicle
Celebrants Transforming Funeral Service in AustraliaAmerican Chronicle, CA - 37 minutes ago"Music and poetry are also such an important part of ceremony there is so much that can be said or felt when you introduce this to your service. ...
- Fair is 99 times better than the first time (Daily Herald)
"I have been all over the world but never to La Ronge," says the Prince Albert man who says he's been attending the fair for 99 years.
- Notes on a small island: The things that really make Britain great (Independent)
Although originally an Australian import, the alcopop became very much a part of the British way of life during the youth alcohol crisis of the 1990s.
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