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- Wow, what a weekend, CBS catches it all (Forest City Summit)
Story created Aug 12, 2008 - 11:53:44 CDT. From the lighting of the ceremonial fire at the Hobo Jungle to the last trophy being handed out at the car show Sunday, Hobo Days 2008 was a grand success.
- Poetry column: Sneaky tactics behind mastering mirrors - Evening Sun
In part, most poets are chroniclers. They record truthfully, though maybe not realistically, the times in which they live. They couch their stories in metaphor and allusion. They compare and refer, rather than state directly. Poets hold before us ...
- Scenes from a survivor - The Age
The AgeScenes from a survivorThe Age, Australia - 50 minutes agoShe has an innate sense of poetry in her writing even when it's farce." Nunn links her personality to her writing: "It's clear Joanna writes so well about ...
- Editorial: The legacy of Solzhenitsyn - Daily Gazette
The death of the famed Russian author and Soviet dissident Alexander Solzhenitsyn Sunday won’t receive the kind of attention it would have had it happened at the height of the Cold War, but it certainly is worth noting. There was a 19th century ...
- Gaia Online's MMO Game, zOMG!, Enters Closed Beta (IGN PC)
Over 120,000 Gaia Online community members apply for the closed beta program.
- An experiment with books for you to read and review - Centre Daily Times
An experiment with books for you to read and reviewCentre Daily Times, PA - 6 hours agoThatcher wants to expand his network of reviewers and is looking particularly for people with interest in fiction and poetry. ...
- Gallery listings -- Published July 31, 2008 - Stockton Record
Gallery listings -- Published July 31, 2008Stockton Record, CA - 58 minutes agoPence Gallery: Small works juried exhibit, ends today;31; works by African-American artists, through Aug. 22. Reception, 7-9 pm Aug. 8. ...
- V.S. Naipaul's 'A Writer's People' - International Herald Tribune
A Writer's People: Ways of Looking and Feeling. An Essay in Five Parts. By V.S. Naipaul. 189 pages. $24.95, Alfred A. Knopf; £16.99, Picador. All my life," V.S. Naipaul writes in the introduction to "A Writer's People," his dense, dry, frustrating ...
- Actor unveils £60,000 prize list - BBC News
The list includes authors from Dylan's native south Wales, and the rest of UK, South Africa, Kenya, the US and Iran. The south Wales authors are Eric Gregory Award winner Zoe Brigley from Caerphilly with The Secret, and Joe Dunthorne from Swansea ...
- WRITER DEBUTS NEW BOOK AND COLECTION OF PAINTINGS - Sarnia Observer
WRITER DEBUTS NEW BOOK AND COLECTION OF PAINTINGSSarnia Observer, Canada - 59 minutes agoThis is Vandeguchte's first book, though she's published previous poetry works, and is a member of the Mississauga Canadian Italian Writers Association and ...
- A poet of balance, style and flexibility - Louisville Courier-Journal
Kentucky lost one of its literary masters this week. Aleda Shirley died Monday, after a long battle with cancer. She was the author of three collections of poetry, Dark Familiar (Sarabande Books, 2006), Long Distance (Miami University Press, 1996 ...
- Caray's wit will endure (The State)
I LOST A DEAR FRIEND Sunday, even though I never met the man. Over the past 33 years, Skip Caray became friend to one and all as the always frank, quick-witted, wise-cracking radio and television voice of the Atlanta Braves and Atlanta Hawks. Caray died in his sleep. He was 68. Atlanta games will not be the same without Caray. Heck, I never have been a Braves or Hawks fan, but I can’t tell you ...
- Schneider novel set during coming RNC (Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune)
You cannot help but love the opening line of Bart Schneider's new novel, "The Man in the Blizzard"; the last word is so unexpected.
- Just Asking . . . Amy Tan - Wall Street Journal
Next month, the San Francisco Opera presents the world premiere of "The Bonesetter's Daughter," based on the 2001 novel by Amy Tan, whose other books include "The Joy Luck Club" and "The Kitchen God's Wife." Ms. Tan wrote the opera's libretto (the ...
- Alienation in Paranoid Park and The Kite - Creative Loafing Sarasota
Alienation in Paranoid Park and The KiteCreative Loafing Sarasota, FL - 2 hours agoOne of the kite-flyers is our young heroine, Lamia (Flavia Bechara), who at 16 isn't really a kid anymore but not quite a woman either. ...
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