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- John Lichfield: Racy goings-on in la France profonde - Belfast Telegraph
The nearest town to our house in Normandy is a sad place which has never fully recovered from the summer of 1944. In June of that year, it was pointlessly bombed by the British. In August, it was partially burned by the SS. Sixty-four years later ...
- The Art of James Salter (Aspen Daily News)
"Salter," a good friend told me. "He's a writer's writer." "What did he write?" I responded. "You gotta read 'A Sport and a Pastime,'" he said. "It's about baseball?" I asked.
- Second Hand Wedding Makes No. 7 Of All Time (Scoop.co.nz)
Pork Pies And Wedding Cake… Paul Murphy Joins Father Geoff In Top 10 Kiwi Films Of All Time!
- Today in History - Aug. 4 - The Ledger
Today is Monday, Aug. 4, the 217th day of 2008. There are 149 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On Aug. 4, 1944, Nazi police raided the secret annex of a building in Amsterdam and arrested eight people, including 15-year-old Anne ...
- Frank Delaney's top 10 Irish novels - guardian.co.uk
Frank Delaney's top 10 Irish novelsguardian.co.uk, UK - 1 hour agoMore poetry lurks in here than in 10 verse anthologies. I don't claim you should read it every day like some sort of Celtic missal; best to approach it once ...
- Bulletin Board — August 25 - Norwich Bulletin
Bulletin Board — August 25Norwich Bulletin, CT - 20 minutes agoSinging, dancing, piano, guitar, poetry readings and skits. Proceeds benefit the Southeast Connecticut Community Center of the Blind. ...
- Importing a passion for poetry (Guardian Unlimited)
Sarah Maguire: If we could read the poets that move huge audiences elsewhere in the world, would it wake up our own?
- Shaking the tree with fury: Jack Marshall and Julia Hartwig (San Diego Union-Tribune)
Now in his early 70s, the American poet Jack Marshall is acutely conscious of his mortality – a fact that gives a sharp edge to the poignancy of the poems in his latest collection, “The Steel Veil†(Coffee House Press, 124 pages, $16).
- Zimbabwe: Poet Gwariwa Set to Scale Loftier Heights - AllAfrica.com
Zimbabwe: Poet Gwariwa Set to Scale Loftier HeightsAllAfrica.com, Washington - 1 hour ago"This kind of poetry was first triggered by the death of Simon Chimbetu. "I decided to name the poem Ndarangarira Gamba after one of his (Chimbetu's) songs ...
- Qabil Ajmeri — ‘the inheritor of unfulfilled renown’ - DAWN Group
“Keats died of consumption before he had completed his 26th year, and is therefore, in Shelley’s phrase, one of ‘the inheritors of unfulfilled renown,’†wrote William Henry Hudson in An outline history of English literature of John Keats ...
- Superman, born in Cleveland - Boston Globe
Boston GlobeSuperman, born in ClevelandBoston Globe, United States - 11 minutes agoAnd his prose can be pure poetry: "Luke turned in a complete circle, and I turned with him, slowly, as if we were tiny figures in a music box, ...
- Short? Yes. Sweet? Not even sort of - Globe and Mail
Short? Yes. Sweet? Not even sort ofGlobe and Mail, Canada - 59 minutes agoThese things used to happen on the front pages of major newspapers (Yes, honestly: France's conservative Le Figaro published an avant-garde poetry manifesto ...
- Capitalism has proven Karl Marx right again - The Herald
Capitalism has proven Karl Marx right againThe Herald, UK - 5 hours agoNevertheless, amid the unconscious, accidental poetry of dismal economics you will find the phrase "moral hazard". It means that you have to be stupid or ...
- Some news from the (new) editor's desk (Engadget)
Filed under: Announcements , Meta As you already may know , today is Ryan Block's last day as editor-in-chief of Engadget, and, consequently, the beginning of my tenure in that same position. If you've ever met Ryan, read his work here on the site (and you'd better have), or seen one of his appearances on television, then you know that he's that rare kind of obsessive technology nerd who ...
- The Brainerd Writers' Alliance will sponsor its fifth writers ... - The Lake Country Echo
The Brainerd Writers' Alliance will sponsor its fifth writers ...The Lake Country Echo, MN - 8 hours agoWriters may enter pieces in any or all of the four categories: short story/fiction, essay/nonfiction, creative nonfiction/memoir and poetry. ...
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