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- Matthew Bruccoli - Guardian Unlimited
Matthew J Bruccoli was in his teens when he first heard the name of F Scott Fitzgerald, attached to a reading of The Diamond as Big as the Ritz on the radio of his parents' car during a Sunday afternoon ride. The next morning he went straight to his ...
- Wikipedians Leave Cyberspace, Meet in Egypt - Wall Street Journal
The ancients ranked the Lighthouse of Alexandria, a 400-foot tower of stone, as one of the Seven Wonders of the World. Just down the road, they overlooked a library that, beginning in the third century B.C., represented the greatest storehouse of ...
- Living without 'isms' - guardian.co.uk
Living without 'isms'guardian.co.uk, UK - 5 minutes agoShowing him painting, reciting poetry and rehearsing actors, it captures a flow of images and memories as he is rushed to hospital in an ambulance. ...
- 'Revelling' in poetry - Rebel Yell
The way Donald Revell describes poetry is poetic in itself. "[What I love about poetry is] the purity of it: the sound and shape of words on the air; pure sounds that nevertheless have meaning. One of the things I hate in life is having to explain ...
- In brief | 82-year-old wins playwriting contest - Tribune-Democrat
82-year-old wins playwriting contest Mountain Playhouse producer Teresa Stoughton Marafino has announced that 82-year-old William S.E. Coleman of Des Moines has won the 2008 Mountain Playhouse International Comedy Playwriting Contest with his entry ...
- Urdu literary body launches website (The Peninsula)
DOHA • Anjuman Muhibban-e-Urdu Hind Qatar recently launched its website www.anjumanqatar.org at a ceremony held at the Indian Cultural Centre (ICC).
- Young poets are honored at Library of Congress - Sarasota Herald-Tribune
Young poets are honored at Library of CongressSarasota Herald-Tribune, FL - 55 minutes agoThe contest -- the largest youth poetry competition in the world -- is conducted by Berkeley nonprofit River of Words and is affiliated with The Library of ...
- Foy Finds Success with Blum in Berlin - Skate Today
Skate TodayFoy Finds Success with Blum in BerlinSkate Today, Canada - 1 hour agoI love to write fantasy stories and poetry." "When I lived in America I was involved a lot more with my church, and did some charity work," she continued. ...
- Local interest in poet Robert Frost reinvigorated - Addison County Independent
Addison County IndependentLocal interest in poet Robert Frost reinvigoratedAddison County Independent, VT - 5 hours agoAnd, following an unsuccessful search last year for a tenure-track professor of literature and poetry, the poet could well fill a current hole in the ...
- Author David Wroblewski answers 7 questions (Vail Daily)
David Wroblewski, author of “The Story of Edgar Sawtelle,†will visit the Bookworm of Edwards Wednesday. ‘The Story of Edgar Sawtelle’ Author: David Wroblewski. Cost: $25.95. Pages: 576.
- Festival to rock out with Patti Smith - News.com.au
Legendary writer and 1970s rock performer Patti Smith will perform in Melbourne for the first time in more than a decade. She will also join composer Philip Glass on stage for one performance of music and poetry in tribute to the late beat poet ...
- The Rush to Save Timbuktu’s Crumbling Manuscripts - Temoust
The Rush to Save Timbuktu’s Crumbling ManuscriptsTemoust, Niger - Aug 1, 2008The Ahmed Baba Library alone contains more than 20000 manuscripts, including works on herbal medicine and mathematics, yellowed volumes of poetry, ...
- Silver Jews' David Berman wants his new songs to be instructive - The Independent Weekly
Silver Jews' David Berman wants his new songs to be instructiveThe Independent Weekly, NC - 13 minutes agoI brought "The Frontier Index," the ninth song on Natural Bridge, into a freshman poetry class back in 1996. Almost no one knew what to make of it. ...
- Of Bradbury, Begley & Books - WeHo News
WeHo NewsOf Bradbury, Begley & BooksWeHo News, CA - 2 hours ago... authors and artists appearing in more than 100 panels and book signings and/or storytelling, poetry and theatrical performances and writing workshops. ...
- Anyone who's laughed at Morris dancing should take Burns ... - The Herald
Anyone who's laughed at Morris dancing should take Burns ...The Herald, UK - 2 hours agoRabbie Burns would be delighted that, more than 200 years after his death, his poetry, his love lyrics, his songs would be vigorously alive in his beloved ...
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