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- Is a Medical Intern's 'Initiation' Harmful to Your Health? (Knowledge at Wharton)
Sandeep Jauhar's book, Intern: A Doctor's Initiation , is the unsettling account of his medical residency at a New York hospital, largely focused on his first year. It represents his take on his internship, interweaving that experience with something of his childhood, family history, previous studies and work experiences. In the process, Jauhar tells us about himself, medical education and ...
- Festival Fun at Lit.Com - RedOrbit
Festival Fun at Lit.ComRedOrbit, TX - 4 hours agoLaunching on National Poetry Day, the festival will open with local poets Driftnet and guest Clare Pollard, who has been named one of The Independent's top ...
- Odds favor Amos Oz for Nobel Prize in Literature (The Christian Science Monitor)
It depends on which set of odds-makers you trust most. Online betting site Unibet favors Israeli author Amos Oz to be the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, scheduled to be announced tomorrow, Oct. 9, in Stockholm. Ladbrokes, a competing site, sees Italian Claudio Magris as the most likely ...
- Poet's influence will live on through his inspirational words - Record
Most Stockton poets are such dilettantes and navel-gazers that a real poet is cause for profound gratitude. That is why I feel a loss at the death of David Humphreys. Humphreys, a skilled poet who combined the mundane and metaphysical, often in the ...
- Student shares literature through YouTube - Tartan
Carnegie Mellon students could soon be YouTube stars. Through the Posner Poetry and Prose Project (p4), sophomore political science major Jessica Dickinson Goodman plans to record student and faculty readings of Huckleberry Finn and various sonnets ...
- David Helfgott was born to shine - Courier Mail
David Helfgott was born to shineCourier Mail, Australia - 2 hours agoThere was so much poetry, beauty and excitement in his playing the other night. And, of course, he had a standing ovation." Gillian concedes that many might ...
- Rosina Kamphuis' work The Sentinel in Western Gothic, Corban ... - NZ Art Monthly
NZ Art MonthlyRosina Kamphuis' work The Sentinel in Western Gothic, Corban ...NZ Art Monthly, New Zealand - 2 hours agoIt is a poetry of dramatic play, suggesting endless seas of change, reflections mirrored in dark pools, sublime landscapes of the soul where reality and ...
- Patti Smith, a life on film - Age
STEVEN SEBRING cheerfully admits that he didn't know much about Patti Smith when he was assigned to photograph her for Spin magazine in the mid-'90s. He remembered a hit single with Bruce Springsteen, Because the Night, and that was about it. He had ...
- Site of the week: The Manchester Review - Guardian Unlimited
This week's star URL is a new arts journal from Manchester University, which has scored a coup by persuading Booker winner John Banville to hand over the first chapter of his yet-to-be-published novel for its launch edition. Banville's The Sinking ...
- 'I don't think you're ever too old to learn' - Des Moines Register
Terri Mace hasn't been in a classroom in 45 years. She opens her reading test and tilts her head to see through the scratched lenses of glasses someone has given her. Her clothes were given to her, too. And now she's been given a chance to get a high ...
- Angel of Grozny - Christian Science Monitor
Christian Science MonitorAngel of GroznyChristian Science Monitor, MA - 40 minutes agoEnamored of Russian poetry, the Norwegian Seierstad learned to speak the language fluently and then became a Moscow-based reporter, eagerly canvassing ...
- Moab Fest Features Pianist-Composer - RedOrbit
Moab Fest Features Pianist-ComposerRedOrbit, TX - 2 minutes agoAmong these commissions is one by a consortium of 10 orchestras for a large choral symphony based on Walt Whitman's poetry. And along with everything else ...
- MAC’s new exhibit celebrates mental health - Daily Anaeum
monarts.bizland.com “Little Faith” by Ed Lewis is one of the many works to be showcased at the MAC’s newly open exhibit, Different Voices and Common Experiences. The exhibit, which is in support of positive mental health awareness, will be ...
- Avondale poet wins top award - Auckland stuff.co.nz
Avondale poet wins top awardAuckland stuff.co.nz, New Zealand - 2 hours agoShe says her sixth poetry collection, Cold Snack has focused on her life as a former secondary school teacher. But it also looks at her experiences as a ...
- Wirksworth Festival ready to roll - Derby Evening Telegraph
Wirksworth Festival ready to rollDerby Evening Telegraph, UK - 20 hours agoOn the first Sunday evening the Gig On the Roof event returns with another free band-packed afternoon and evening. It begins in the Market Place at 4pm and ...
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