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- Books special: Can intelligent literature survive in the digital age? (Independent)
Look at this chap sitting outside the Caffè Uno at Paddington station. He is reading For Whom the Bell Tolls with slightly exaggerated attention. He has a Uniball pen close to hand, for making shrewd marginal comments. He holds the book up before his face, and his chin juts slightly, as if the fall of Hemingway's lapidary prose were giving him some caffeine boost of vicarious heroism. Behold, ...
- Too Broke to Fail - Slate
Someone's Better Off: With a deep recession looming and the government going bust, the widespread consensus is that the financial crisis strikes a bitter blow to the presidential candidates' grand policy ambitions. As Ted Widmer asked in the Outlook ...
- View all headlines - Recorder
HEATH -- To celebrate the town center's recent inclusion on the National Register of Historic Places, the town's Historical Commission and Historical Society have put together a daylong event that focuses on the town's history this Saturday, from 10 ...
- Dire predictions call for traditional approach - CBC News
Scottishness is something you can't outrun. I have spent most of my life trying – and my Scottish-Canadian mother has been patience itself over the years as she watched me lashing at those Calvinist ties that bind – but I concede defeat. Every ...
- In the Arts (Independent)
"Plein Air 3 Ways" is on exhibit at the Middletown Library through July 31. Favorite scenes through the eyes and art of three plein air artists: Manny Jomok, watercolors; Marge Levine, pastels; and Jim Ferrier, oils. Plein Air artists paint from life and work out of doors to capture the light and movement of an actual scene.
- Almanac (The State)
MEETINGS COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS COLUMBIA CLEMSON CLUB: Noon Wednesday at Seawell’s on Rosewood Drive. Guest speaker will be Will Merritt. Tickets are $20; to make a reservation, send a check payable to the Columbia Clemson Club, P.O. Box 2242, Columbia, SC 29202 or e-mail mtaylor@mcnair.net PALMETTO PERSONAL COMPUTER CLUB: 6-8:30 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 14, at Capital Senior Center, 1650 ...
- the has-been - Slate
Someone's Better Off: With a deep recession looming and the government going bust, the widespread consensus is that the financial crisis strikes a bitter blow to the presidential candidates' grand policy ambitions. As Ted Widmer asked in the Outlook ...
- Goings on About Town: Readings and Talks (The New Yorker)
MUSEUM OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK The journalist Nicholas Lemann talks politics with Theodore C. Sorensen, former adviser to President John F. Kennedy. (Museum of the City of New York, Fifth Ave. at 103rd St. 212-534-1672. Oct. 1 at 6:30.) SYMPHONY SPACE Salman Rushdie, the editor of “The Best . . .
- International poetry festival to be held in Ulaanbaatar - Mongolia Web News
International poetry festival to be held in UlaanbaatarMongolia Web News, Mongolia - 21 hours agoNoted writers and poets will gather in Ulaanbaatar for the festival. Their meeting will be part of the 80th anniversary celebrations of the Confederation of ...
- Fernando Lugo Presidency Brings Hope in Paraguay - Dissident Voice
Fernando Lugo Presidency Brings Hope in ParaguayDissident Voice, CA - 14 hours agoThe high point was the arrival of Chavez and Lugo, who took seats in the audience and eventually took the stage, not with speeches, but with poetry recitals ...
- Bible Classes in Texas Public Schools - On Faith
Bible Classes in Texas Public SchoolsOn Faith, DC - 46 minutes agoThe board says the purpose of the course is to “teach students knowledge of biblical content, characters, poetry, and narratives that are prerequisites to ...
- Concert review: Ratatat, E*Rock, and Panther at the Granada (September ... - Pegasus News
Evan Mast and Mike Stroud, also known as Ratatat, don’t sing. The Brooklyn-based duo don’t recite poetry over their music either. Good riddance. However, what they do is fuse hip hop beats with spectacular acrobatic guitar riffs as well as a ...
- Poetry, please! - Daily Telegraph
What is it that makes a poem memorable? Stephanie Plentl asks a selection of famous readers for their favourite verse. Funny, moving, engaging, sad and even intriguing – in the past five weeks, since we launched our Poetry for Performance ...
- Carleton to Commemorate the 90th Anniversary of Armistice Day with ... - Carleton College News
Carleton to Commemorate the 90th Anniversary of Armistice Day with ...Carleton College News, MN - 1 hour agoThe largest portion of exhibit is devoted to American sheet music, which helps to document the changing attitudes of the American public toward the war. ...
- Enid anesthesiologist takes time out from job in putting together CD ... - Enid News & Eagle
Lynn Phillips sits in the living room of his home dressed in his hospital scrubs waiting to be called back to the hospital, as he talks about his new CD of cowboy poetry. “It started out as a form of entertainment on cattle drives. Cowboys would ...
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