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- The Solitary Vice: Has Reading Really Made You a Better Person? - Popmatters.com
In this third excerpt of PopMatters' first book, The Solitary Vice: Against Reading , by Mikita Brottman, Brottman tells us about the dark, pathological side of books. Dreams of death among books are perhaps less common than fantasies of a life among ...
- Another mind-blowing win for Jamaica's Usain Bolt - Miami Herald
BEIJING - Once you blow away the world, simply running wondrously isn't enough. The question becomes: When will you blow us away again? Usain Bolt on Wednesday nipped two-hundredths off Michael Johnson's 19.32 mark in the 200 meters set at the 1996 ...
- Bouchard ‘guiding light’ for new school (yorkregion.com)
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- World is taking the high road to Capital - Edinburgh Evening News
World is taking the high road to CapitalEdinburgh Evening News, UK - 16 minutes agoIn November, Edinburgh will host an illuminated art car parade, featuring such innovations as a Robert Burns poetry van, a Burke and Hare barrow, ...
- Best-selling author Danielle Steel writes to 'give people hope' - News1130.com
NEW YORK - It's only 9:33 a.m. but already Danielle Steel is having a lousy morning. She's in a Rockefeller Plaza dressing room, having her hair tugged and her makeup tweaked. She's endured questioning from Matt Lauer on the "Today" show and soon ...
- 'Earth' takes a giant leap back to the space race (Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier)
For all but a few select humans, the way to outer space -- the real outer space, not the one where the Cylons live -- has been through a TV screen. You can climb to the top of Mount Everest, or trek to the South Pole or go down under the sea and see it for yourself, but space is still the province of professionals: We know it only by the pictures they take.
- Club Listings - Sun Chronicle
The Ancient Marinere, 7-9 Mechanic St., Foxboro. 508-543-5564. The Anvil Pub, 303 Sheers St., Wrentham. 508-384-3752. Chieftain Pub, 23 Washington St., Rte. 1, Plainville. 508-643-9031 or www.chieftainpub.com . City Oasis, 50 Pleasant St., Norton ...
- VISI pays tribute to North Shore composer - North Shore News
VISI pays tribute to North Shore composerNorth Shore News, Canada - 3 hours ago"She picks poetry that is very close to the West Coast mentality. If you're feeling homesick sing some Jean Coulthard," says Duncan. ...
- Prairie View's Henry going to Idylwild - Gainesville Sun
Prairie View's Henry going to IdylwildGainesville Sun, FL - 1 hour agoHenry said she loves poetry and inspirational quotes from others because "they convey such wonderful messages." One such quote refers to the great teacher. ...
- Michel Houellebecq - guardian.co.uk
Michel Houellebecqguardian.co.uk, UK - 59 minutes agoWhatever (L'Extension du Domaine de la Lutte) was made into a film in 2000. Houellebecq has recorded a CD of his poetry, Presence Humaine (Tricatel ...
- Laureate lessons: Politics and artistic honors don't mix - Gloucester Daily Times
Gloucester has a new poet laureate — officially. But the title might as well be amended to "political poet laureate." That is the only way to describe the appointment of John Ronan by the City Council on Tuesday night. The council didn't even vote ...
- Smell of lie- smell of time - OpEdNews
Smell of lie- smell of timeOpEdNews, PA - 6 hours agoIn the 1960s Russian poet Boris Slutsky wrote this short poem about his times. It is more than relevant now. I changed it a little bit. ...
- Thurston Moore and Co. write the book on No Wave - Paste Magazine
Paste MagazineThurston Moore and Co. write the book on No WavePaste Magazine, GA - 19 hours ago... and writing criticism and poetry. No, the ever-achieving Moore wanted to add another job title to his Myspace page: archivist. This week, Abrams Books ...
- Christ, Come Quickly - America Magazine (subscription)
America Magazine (subscription)Christ, Come QuicklyAmerica Magazine (subscription), NY - 18 minutes agoIn Exiles, Hopkins needs nothing more than a Jesuit superior’s gentle prodding to inspire a return to poetry. Hansen intersperses his tale of Hopkins’s ...
- On approaching 'Geezer' status - Leader Vindicator
On approaching 'Geezer' statusLeader Vindicator, PA - 37 minutes agoIt was for a book of poetry by Rod McKuen, "Stanyon Street and Other Sorrows." My initial reaction was, "What was I thinking?" But, as I read the last poem, ...
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