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- Celebrity the mother of reinvention - Age
I HAVE a nose that looks like it's trying to eat my face. I make no secret of it. My book advance wasn't generous enough to cover the cost of rhinoplasty. If it had been, I'd have introduced a very different William Kostakis alongside my book. See ...
- Waldorf's visiting writer series opens with memorist - Forest City Summit
FOREST CITY - Noted memoirist Tim Bascom will be the first author coming to Waldorf College as part of its newly established Distinguished Visiting Writer Series. Bascom, whose memoir "Chameleon Days" won the Bakeless Literary Prize in Nonfiction and ...
- Book Review - Baldwin's Harlem: A Biography of James Baldwin by Herb Boyd (Blogcritics.org)
Boyd pulls at the Baldwin self-doubt scab -- born black, gay, poor and ugly, not the most auspicious start in life. James Baldwin fascinates and is fascinated with Harlem. The confluence of writer and city meet in Baldwin novels, but not in the majority of them, as most readers might expect. That is the subject of the new book by Herb Boyd. The author knows Baldwin, knows Harlem and knows ...
- Ben Folds finds his 'Way to Normal' - Grand Rapids Press
Courtesy photo Ben Folds will play The Fillmore in Detroit on Thursday. For singer-pianist Ben Folds, playing Detroit is like performing in front of thousands of emotional brainiacs. "I've always liked playing Detroit," Folds said during a recent ...
- Sell-out poet John Hegley’s in town - WalesOnline
Sell-out poet John Hegley’s in townWalesOnline, United Kingdom - 1 hour agoAfter publishing Glad to Wear Glasses in 1990, another six titles followed filled with verse, prose, drawings drama and photographs of potatoes, ...
- Grad students to hold yearly writing forum - Binghamton University Pipe Dream
Grad students to hold yearly writing forumBinghamton University Pipe Dream, USA - 2 hours agoLemon, a writer of poetry, has been published in a multitude of magazines, such as Best American Poetry 2008. Like these talented writers, panelists at the ...
- Africa Alive Festival aims to help orphans with AIDS - The Capital Times
Africa Alive Festival aims to help orphans with AIDSThe Capital Times, WI - 4 hours agoThe festival will take place from 2 to 8 pm In addition to African dancing, drumming and spoken word poetry, Tony Brown & the 608 Riddim Section will ...
- Alasdair Gray - guardian.co.uk
Alasdair Grayguardian.co.uk, UK - 1 hour agoHe has also published short stories, poetry (always written, he claims, after the loss of a loved one), essays and polemic (including a book on Scottish ...
- Reporting: England - American Reporter
CARTERSVILLE, Ga. -- The glass of water in my left hand bounced up and down on my stomach and the tablespoon of peanut butter in my right hand bobbed up and down with my sobbing. I was having a full-blown, I-hate-diabetes private pity-party for one ...
- Poet laureate celebrates birthday with stories (Boston Globe)
Former New Hampshire and U.S. Poet Laureate Donald Hall celebrated his 80th birthday with, what else, poetry and stories.
- GEOFF SCHUMACHER: Defying reputation, Las Vegas has a bookish side - Las Vegas Review - Journal
GEOFF SCHUMACHER: Defying reputation, Las Vegas has a bookish sideLas Vegas Review - Journal, NV - 1 hour agoWe have quite a few students who haunt the poetry and literature sections." DeVere's customers also buy quality books from the nonfiction aisles. ...
- Judge Hull Remembered - Greeneville Sun
Hundreds of family members, friends, colleagues, former employees, and fellow church members came together Friday afternoon to celebrate the life of the late Thomas Gray Hull, and reflect on his impact on their own lives. Hull, a retired U.S ...
- Berkeley mothers start Farsi-immersion preschool - Oakland Tribune
Berkeley mothers start Farsi-immersion preschoolOakland Tribune, CA - 4 hours agoNow, Modabber wants her two young sons, Kian and Manu, to discover what she has grown to love about traditional Iranian culture — its poetry, ...
- Short 'n' sweet - NZ Herald Christchurch Metro
Short 'n' sweetNZ Herald Christchurch Metro, New Zealand - 1 hour ago"It's a really intense experience, every word counts - it's like poetry, really." Short stories are having a golden time at present. ...
- If it’s banned, read it out loud - Mcalester News Capital
If it’s banned, read it out loudMcalester News Capital, OK - 12 hours agoTeens are urged to read their own original poetry or prose, or read a passage from a banned book. There will be a display and a listed of suggested works if ...
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