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- Naipaul’s compass - Saudi Gazette
Ways of Looking and Feeling: An Essay in Five Parts. By V. S. Naipaul. 189 pp. Alfred A. Knopf. $24.95. ALL my life,†V. S. Naipaul writes in the introduction to “A Writer’s People,†his dense, dry, frustrating new memoir, “I have had to ...
- Fairfax Community Events July 24-July 31, 2008 - Washington Post
Washington PostFairfax Community Events July 24-July 31, 2008Washington Post, United States - 40 minutes agoRESTON CHILDREN'S SHOW, by Malcolm the Magician. 11-11:30 am, Lake Anne Plaza, 1609-A Washington Plaza, Reston. Free. 703-620-5554. POETRY, PHOTOGRAPHY AND ...
- Old-fashioned timers are new-styled art in our gardens - Moncton ThisWeek
Old-fashioned timers are new-styled art in our gardensMoncton ThisWeek, Canada - 23 minutes ago... carry cheerful little mottos like "I count only the sunny hours," but ancient sundials had deeper thoughts and poetry and philosophy carved into them. ...
- Hundreds impressed with offerings at Spring Spectacular - Florida Times-Union
Hundreds impressed with offerings at Spring SpectacularFlorida Times-Union, FL - 3 hours agoGeiger said she hopes everyone involved had a fun evening with the opportunity to celebrate their child's work, including student performances, ...
- A few tomes for your summer reading list featuring man's best friends - New York Daily News
Summer is sizzling. Here are a few reading picks perfect for a dog-day afternoon. "Broadway Barks," by Bernadette Peters , illustrated by Liz Murphy . (Blue Apple Books, $17.95). In her first book, actress and animal advocate Bernadette Peters tells ...
- John Lundberg: Can Poetry Really Be Translated? (HuffingtonPost)
There's a great story of a Japanese production group that decided the conclusion of Samuel Beckett's classic Waiting for Godot was a little too...inconclusive. In...
- Big City: An Online Swap Meet Where Ids and Superegos Mingle (New York Times)
Freecyle.org, a Web site where people offer their unwanted goods free of charge and others request goods they’d like to own free of charge, is popular in Brooklyn.
- 'I don't want to be laureate' (Guardian Unlimited)
News: Wendy Cope calls the 400-year-old post - held by Ben Jonson, William Wordsworth and John Betjeman - 'ridiculous' and 'archaic'
- Special events: Celebrate with food, fireworks, bands, baseball - Toledo Blade
Special events: Celebrate with food, fireworks, bands, baseballToledo Blade, OH - 1 hour agoD'vine Design: 116 Louisiana Ave., Perrysburg; 874-2816; jewelry, paintings, sculpting, metal works, rug weaving, and poetry art; on permanent view. ...
- Alesia: Madison beer fest soaking up popularity - Wisconsin State Journal
It's too popular. On a recent Sunday morning, Great Taste sold all of its 5,000 tickets in seemingly the time it takes to pour a tap beer. Despite limiting sales to in-person sites and mail order — nothing online — each $35 ticket was sold within ...
- Thurston Moore: Sensitive/Lethal (Pitchfork)
The latest in a long run of below-the-radar experimental solo releases for small labels finds the underground rock figurehead making long-form noise music for Carlos Giffoni's No Fun imprint. read more
- Book Folks: Bausch to sign WWII novel (Memphis Commercial Appeal)
Prolific author Richard Bausch will read from and sign his new novel "Peace" (Alfred A. Knopf, $20) twice this week, in Memphis and in Oxford, Miss. Bausch holds the Moss Chair of Excellence in the English Department at the University of Memphis, where he teaches fiction writing. "Peace" -- a short novel about World War II that is anything but peaceful -- is Bausch's 11th novel. Others include ...
- Thomas M. Disch | 1940-2008: Catastrophes blamed for author's suicide (The Columbus Dispatch)
NEW YORK -- Author, poet and critic Thomas M. Disch -- who twisted the inherently twisted genre of science fiction in disturbing directions, including writing his last book in the voice of God -- died Friday in his Manhattan apartment. He was 68.
- Emperor of the first holocaust: How the death of his male lover ... - Daily Mail
Daily MailEmperor of the first holocaust: How the death of his male lover ...Daily Mail, UK - 1 hour agoHe was a passionate huntsman, a talented linguist and, even in his humble campaign tent, an ardent student of poetry and philosophy. ...
- Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired reviewed. - Slate
Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired reviewed.Slate - 6 hours agoBut if you are looking for a high-end procedural packed with fresh interviews and touches of easy visual poetry, then she's your woman. ...
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