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- HAPPENINGS IN DAVIDSON - Nashville Tennessean
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- 'Infinite Jest' author, 46, an apparent suicide (CNN.com)
CLAREMONT, California (AP) -- David Foster Wallace, the author best known for his 1996 novel "Infinite Jest," was found dead in his home, according to police. He was 46.
- Cliff Huxtable For President - Baltimore City Paper
Cliff Huxtable For PresidentBaltimore City Paper, MD - 30 minutes ago"I am an ordinary human being who is impelled to write poetry . . . I still do feel that a poet has a duty to words, and that words can do wonderful things, ...
- UT grad's poem lands in a top magazine - Toledo Blade
UT grad's poem lands in a top magazineToledo Blade, OH - 20 minutes agoIn less than 140 words, it tells the tale of a 14-year-old who gets her name permanently imprinted on the back of her neck while accompanied by a friend. ...
- Books: "The Snowball" (The New Yorker)
This authorized biography of Warren Buffett, based on thousands of hours of interviews, appears just a week after Buffett took a decisive role in the current financial crisis, investing some five billion dollars in Goldman Sachs--a deal that conforms to his maxim “Be fearful when others are greedy and . . .
- From Military Artifact to Art - Wall Street Journal
The Great Wall of China was ignored for centuries in China, "discovered" by Westerners and has now emerged as one of those useful national symbols, like Mount Rushmore or the Eiffel Tower or the Tower of London, that is instantly recognizable and ...
- Poetic License (The Art Of Writing About Music) (Arts Journal)
"The past century has taught us that good writing can appear in unexpected forms: film scripts, Sopranos-type series, the storytelling of R. Crumb or Art Spiegelman, for instance. And writing about poetry, particularly praising contemporary poetry, is a fine but extremely difficult art."
- Extension service moves classes to branch libraries - St. Petersburg Times
Beginning Wednesday, the Hernando County Cooperative Extension Service will no longer operate a satellite office at the Forest Oaks Government Center. Instead, the Hernando County Public Library System will host the extension's free horticulture ...
- Budding filmmakers get in on the action - The Times-Picayune - NOLA.com
Budding filmmakers get in on the actionThe Times-Picayune - NOLA.com, LA - Jul 30, 2008It's about how love is more than just words." Filmed at Boykin's home in Covington, the north shore teen is excited about the premiere of the film online, ...
- National recognition for teenage poet - Gloucestershire Gazette
National recognition for teenage poetGloucestershire Gazette, UK - 3 hours agoBy Jayne Bennett » A SIXTH former in her final year at Katharine Lady Berkeley’s School is one of just a few winners of a national poetry competition. ...Chester Literature Festival gets under way ChesterChronicle.co.ukHeather Halliwell: Armley sixth former win prestigious writing prize Armley Todayall 4 news articles
- Sex and Gasoline - Starpulse.com
Sex and Gasoline is Rodney Crowell's first record in three years, where he goes further inside but pulls out accessible and jagged observations on the conflicting poles in what it means to be a conscious human being who struggles with unconscious ...
- Kennedy return triumphant - Denver Post
Kennedy return triumphantDenver Post, CO - 1 hour agoAmid the poetry, Monday night's political stagecraft also showed another side of Kennedy — less Tennyson and more the showman tub-thumper. ...
- For rapper, creativity comes in many forms - Charlottesville Daily Progress
For rapper, creativity comes in many formsCharlottesville Daily Progress, VA - 11 minutes ago... hip hop-styled poetry, “Poetic Philosophy.†He’s doing his best to put his thoughts into every form that fits. “I’m always writing,†Mr. Perkins says, ...
- Original Meaning of the Olympic Games - Huffington Post
Huffington PostOriginal Meaning of the Olympic GamesHuffington Post, NY - Aug 12, 2008The Olympic Games, as reported, were held every four years from 776 BC to 393 AD, when they were abolished by the Christian Byzantine Emperor Theodosius I. ...
- Church has heart for art (The Greenville News)
When he was growing up on a farm in the African nation of Namibia, Johann Vanderbijl felt that he was a misfit.
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