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- Independent Reader: Buddy books - Independent News Online
THE PURE, LIMPID, and always inspiring air of the Hudson Valley has worked its magic on two new books, each about a bond between two unlikely people. One is a novel, the other a biography with stunning literary interpretations. Brenda Wineapple has ...
- Strassheim exhibit begins in October - The Salinas Californian
Strassheim exhibit begins in OctoberThe Salinas Californian, CA - 16 minutes agoThe exhibit is part of the National Endowment for the Arts program, "The Big Read: The Poetry of Robinson Jeffers." The exhibition contrasts Jeffers' poetry ...
- Dreams For OUR Fathers - OfficialWire
Dreams For OUR FathersOfficialWire, NY - 31 minutes agoJames Dickey, who taught me poetry at the University of South Carolina back in the 1970's, was a great big old Southern raccoon, and he'd gobble down his ...
- Surviving Spike's laughter in the dark - Metro
Surviving Spike's laughter in the darkMetro, UK - 10 hours agoShe's his agent, his manager, his best friend, his mum. Sheer strength of character keeps her going even in the face of her own marriage collapsing. ...
- New children's book captures sisters' special bond - Business Gazette
New children's book captures sisters' special bondBusiness Gazette, MD - 18 hours agoBoth women say they have long written poetry and kept journals. The two do have plans to collaborate on books in the future, but for now, says Jackson, ...
- Ryan Reading To Kick Off Literary Season - Post Chronicle
Kay Ryan, the new poet laureate consultant in poetry to the U.S. Library of Congress, has agreed to open the library's 2008-2009 literary season with a reading. The library said the event is to take place Oct. 16 in the Mumford Room of the James ...
- Hidden histories - Boston Globe
Hidden historiesBoston Globe, United States - 52 minutes agoToday we still turn to Homer's epics not only as sources of ancient wisdom and wrenchingly powerful poetry, but also as genuinely popular entertainments. ...
- Van Gogh's starry nights star in new MoMa show (USA Today)
Before Vincent van Gogh could make what would become one of the world's most famous and beloved images, he had to figure out how to use color to paint the blackness of night and how to do it in the dark.
- Local poet’s memory lives on - Trentonian
Local poet’s memory lives onTrentonian, Canada - 8 hours agoWe didn’t know quite what to make of him, kind of wrote him off as an eccentric, but we knew he wrote poetry. One of those poems is entitled At the Quinte ...
- The Garden of Last Days - guardian.co.uk
The Garden of Last Daysguardian.co.uk, UK - 1 hour agoAnd, again, she too has a would-be protector, not a misguided cop this time, but a poetry-loving bouncer called Lonnie. The women in both books stand to ...
- Pal power (New Orleans Times-Picayune)
Sometimes, with all the pointless competition, feuding and lack of cooperation, the "New Orleans theater community" doesn't seem to exist. But for singer-actress Lisa Picone, it came through big-time.
- Nuit x Three - National Post
Nuit x ThreeNational Post, Canada - 42 minutes agoThe TTC may be running all night - and it's free, to boot! - but it may be a good idea to skip the streetcars and take your Schwinn for a spin. ...
- Fall Arts Preview: Literary & Signings (Jackson Free Press)
MAC Poetry Anthology Call for Submissions Aug. 4-Oct. 15. The editors of The Southern Poetry Anthology are seeking submissions for the third in its series featuring Mississippi poets, and published by Texas Review Press.
- The many peaks of mountains in literature - Guardian Blogs
There is something about the natural landscape that inspires writing quite like that of any other genre. Perhaps it is because when people are removed from the equation, the writer is left with a subject matter that is less fleeting than the short ...
- A fictional first lady bares her soul in a racy novel (The Sarasota Herald-Tribune)
Curtis Sittenfeld knew she was being provocative. Invoking "the love that dare not speak its name" in a 2004 article for Salon.com, she burst out of her liberal Democrat's closet and declared: "I love Laura Bush. In fact, there is no public figure I admire more."
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