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- Publisher Martin Reiner on books, business and Brno (Radio Prague)
As well as being a poet and novelist, Martin Reiner is one of this country’s most successful publishers. He has been in the business since 1991, first at Brno’s Nakladatelstvà Petrov, which he took over after a year at the helm, and more recently at Nakladatelstvà Druhé město (Second City Publishers), which he set up in 2005. He publishes the Czech Republic’s best-selling contemporary writer, ...
- Book Beat - Brazoria Facts
U.S. President Andrew Stoddard contacts his old Naval Academy roommate, Gabe Singleton, to serve as Stoddard’s personal physician. The man who formerly held that post has disappeared and Stoddard, who is in the midst of a bitter political fight for ...
- Entertainment Calendar for May 30 to June 6 - Santa Maria Times
Entertainment Calendar for May 30 to June 6Santa Maria Times, CA - 2 hours agoLOS OLIVOS, June 1: The Fifth Annual Poetry Reading, hosted by the Wildling Art Museum, 2948 Nojoqui St., Suite 4 from 3 to 5 pm, features poems about ...
- 102-year-old Bickleton High grad is last of her class (Tri-City Herald)
Neva Reiman will have a seat of honor today in Bickleton, where she will be honored as the last surviving graduate of the high school's Class of 1923.
- When I was in my 20s, I was given a Chinese puzzle box. It was a lovely object,... (San Francisco Chronicle)
When I was in my 20s, I was given a Chinese puzzle box. It was a lovely object, smooth and elegant and wonderful to touch. It was also an elegant puzzle. The instructions: "Open the box." Three words. The solution involved thinking (including some sideways...
- Thomas Disch, prophet - Macleans.ca
Thomas Disch, prophetMacleans.ca, Canada - 13 minutes agoAnd, maybe most of all, about how many outlets there still were for out-of-step writing in the 1960’s. His novels, poetry and other writings speak for ...
- Dick Martin, half of "Laugh-in" comedy team, dies - Ottawa Recorder
Dick Martin, half of "Laugh-in" comedy team, diesOttawa Recorder, Canada - May 30, 2008Other times, Gibson, clutching a flower, would recite nonsensical poetry or Johnson would impersonate a comical Nazi spy. Stars such as John Wayne and Kirk ...
- Humble beginnings, curiosity drive Pastides (The State)
If he had come from a more privileged background, the University of South Carolina’s newest president might have studied poetry. Instead Harris Pastides, son of Greek immigrants from Cyprus, said he needed to find something to pay the bills. So he took up medicine. And just as his father worked his way up from washing dishes to owning his own restaurant, Pastides has climbed the academic ladder ...
- Barbara Rodgers to leave CBS 5 (San Francisco Bay View)
Barbara Rodgers estimates that she’s done at least 8,000 interviews during her 36 years in broadcasting. Most of those were for CBS 5, KPIX-TV, the station that has been her home away from home since 1979. Now Rodgers has decided to take a break.
- The Palestinian Rothschilds - Ha'aretz
The Palestinian RothschildsHa'aretz, Israel - 5 hours agoThe demand for the right of return, he notes, has never ceased, and it finds expression in poetry, cinema and art and in popular resistance. ...
- Magazine Preview - New York Times
M atthew Weiner stood on the set of his hit show, “Mad Men,” ready for his close-up in extreme anxiety. He was watching the rehearsal of a scene that seemed fine to me, better than fine, but his staccato commentary was a scene in itself. “He ...
- Sharjah student is master story teller - Khaleej Times
Sharjah student is master story tellerKhaleej Times, United Arab Emirates - 5 hours agoThe ESSC (based on the theme - 'Our memories, dreams and futures') invited students to write stories which could be fact or fiction, poetry or prose, ...
- 'Ladies of Liberty: The Women Who Shaped Our Nation,' by Cokie Roberts (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)
She calls it history's "other half." ...
- Columbia’s Catastrophic “Nakba” Conference - FrontPage magazine.com
Columbia’s Catastrophic “Nakba” ConferenceFrontPage magazine.com, CA - 21 hours agoMassad spoke about challenging Israeli military might “with art, poetry and dance.” Radwan claimed that “destroying Israel has never been a part of the ...
- Communication is key - Owen Sound Sun Times
Organizers of this year’s Fabulous Festival of Fringe Film in Durham are honouring one of their own. Geoffrey Shea has created five installations that emphasize the written and the spoken word — a theme that he says runs through his own life and ...
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