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- Signing off: the weird world of book signings (Independent)
To some authors, the book-signing is a curse. What could be more excruciatingly dull, to the sensitive creative mind, than to sit for hours in a festival tent or bookshop, inscribing your name on several hundred copies of your new masterpiece? This isn't a proper display of your writing talent – a baboon scratching the dirt with a stick could do it just as well.
- • IN THE ARTS - Coastline Pilot
• IN THE ARTSCoastline Pilot, CA - 32 minutes agoDonna Hilbert will read from her poetry books “Transforming Matter” and “Deep Red” at 5 pm Saturday at Laguna Beach Books, The Old Pottery Place, ...
- Vandals of Frost's home are punished with poetry classes - Detroit Free Press
MIDDLEBURY, Vt. -- Call it poetic justice: More than two dozen young people who broke into Robert Frost's former home for a beer party and trashed the place are being required to take classes in his poetry as part of their punishment. Using "The Road ...
- Video Vault: Into the Wild, Grizzly Man - Gant Daily
Video Vault: Into the Wild, Grizzly ManGant Daily, PA - 6 hours agoDirector Sean Penn captures the poetry and the story magnificently. Werner Herzog's 2005 documentary on the life and death of grizzly bear activist Timothy ...
- Passing the time with Boston Poet Laureate Sam Cornish - Somerville News
Passing the time with Boston Poet Laureate Sam CornishSomerville News, MA - 2 hours agoOn the subway, on the way to the meeting, I read through a collection of Cornish's that I picked up at the Grolier Poetry Book Shop some time ago: “Cross A ...
- A global tribute to a Scottish inspiration - Edinburgh News
ROBERT BURNS might have been at the heart of all the stories in last night's Storytelling Cafe, but there was a fully international flavour to the evening, with stories ranging far and wide across the globe. d by Stuart McHardy, a storyteller, writer ...
- Author Ha Jin still waiting for the right time to visit his native ... - Kansas City Star
A Free Life, the latest book by Ha Jin, probably won’t pass China’s censors. “It’s impossible in the short run,” Jin said. On a trip that has put him the closest he has been to his homeland in 23 years, Chinese-American author Ha Jin says ...
- Key dates in Radovan Karadzic's life (AP via Yahoo! News)
Key dates in the life of former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, arrested Monday on U.N. genocide charges:
- The Literati: Slamming Starts Up Again, The Best of Book Covers, and Anne Hotter Than LiLo (Torontoist)
Every Tuesday afternoon, Torontoist rounds up the city's literary news, including book deals, events, local sales, author happenings, and insider information from the book industry.
- Entertainment Calendar: 06/13/2008 (Traverse City Record-Eagle)
Items for this calendar must be received by the Record-Eagle at least two weeks in advance. All calendars are published on a space available basis. Information may be mailed to Entertainment Calendar, Record-Eagle, P.O. Box 632, Traverse City, MI 49685-0632; faxed to 946-8632; or e-mail sbeach@record-eagle.com
- Nissan GT-R - Times Online
Nissan GT-RTimes Online, UK - 42 minutes agoI know every shape and every crease serves an aerodynamic purpose but it’s like free-form poetry. It’s like it was conceived by Bartok. ...
- Kay Ryan, Donald Trump, Ronnie Wood (International Herald Tribune)
A round-up of the day's celebrity news.
- It ain't etiquette: How to be an attendant audience - China Post
It ain't etiquette: How to be an attendant audienceChina Post, Taiwan - 29 minutes agoOnce I was at a poetry reading where the announcer, packing some punch in the standard ho-hum cellphone reminder, prefaced the show with a rather dark ...
- Justice for Gays - Washington Post
Justice for GaysWashington Post, United States - Jul 4, 2008When Karen became eligible for disability benefits in 2005, she asked that Elijah receive "child's insurance benefits" under Social Security to supplement ...
- Gospel concert is fundraiser for youth - Muskogee Daily Phoenix
Gospel concert is fundraiser for youthMuskogee Daily Phoenix, OK - 2 hours agoShe is singer with a love for poetry. She is co-president of Muskogee ACT-SO branch. • Evantis McCoy, 16, sophomore at MHS, is a vocalist and dancer who has ...
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