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- Joyce Carol Oates enters 'tabloid hell' (AP via Yahoo! News)
"My Sister, My Love" (Ecco. 562 pages. $25.95), by Joyce Carol Oates: Some of Oates' books feel as if she wrote them as dares to herself. This novel, her 37th, is one of the wildest.
- Akiane, God's Prodigy Artist - American Chronicle
Akiane, God's Prodigy ArtistAmerican Chronicle, CA - 33 minutes agoShe began painting at six and writing poetry at seven. Akiane's painting, "Hope," donated to The Listen Campaign for children in 2007, fetched a promise of ...
- Lewisboro Confidential - Lewisboro Ledger
Lewisboro ConfidentialLewisboro Ledger, NY - 1 hour ago... matter how brilliant you are, you’d be doomed to a life shackled to a drawing board. So what if poetry is inconclusive meandering with bad punctuation? ...
- Reluctant 18-year-old poet sees work chosen for top prize - Pittsburgh Post Gazette
Pittsburgh Post GazetteReluctant 18-year-old poet sees work chosen for top prizePittsburgh Post Gazette, PA - 54 minutes agoMiss O'Hare, the novice poet, won in the teen category of the Borders Open-Door Poetry Contest with a work called "Jainism." A panel of authors, editors, ...
- OSUM recognizes 2008 academic achievers (The Marion Star)
MARION - The Ohio State University at Marion welcomed a large contingent of academically gifted students, family and guests, faculty, staff, university trustees and friends of the campus to the Palace Theatre on May 29 as part of the 37th annual Academic Recognition Program.
- Looking for clues to a pianist's afterlife - Boston Globe
Looking for clues to a pianist's afterlifeBoston Globe, United States - 12 minutes agoHe has inspired poetry, fiction, and a feature film. He has been embraced by intellectuals, famous composers, musical neophytes, and Hannibal Lecter. ...
- David Mackay sets relentlessly camp tone for Twelfth Night - Georgia Straight
David Mackay sets relentlessly camp tone for Twelfth NightGeorgia Straight, Canada - 7 hours agoSqueezing them into the cadences of a pop tune kills the poetry, a fate that awaits a good deal of text in composer Murray Price’s score. ...
- Book guide - Billings Gazette
• AUTHOR VISITS: Former Billings resident Bonnie Nester will speak at Parmly Billings Library, 510 N. Broadway, at 7 p.m. Monday. Nester wrote "Moments This Good: The Softer Side of Alzheimer's," a softcover book from Golden Quill Publishing in ...
- Famed MSU writers headline 'homecoming' - Lansing State Journal
When Jim Harrison returns to campus Thursday, he knows the vibe will be different than during his years at Michigan State University in the early 1960s. "Coeds will look over the top of my head because I'm now in the biological Dumpster. I'm an older ...
- HURRY DOWN SUNSHINE (Kirkus Reviews)
Times Literary Supplement columnist Greenberg chronicles his 15-year-old daughter Sally's manic breakdown in vivid yet surprisingly detached prose.
- Home is where the press is - Business Standard
Home is where the press isBusiness Standard, India - 2 hours ago... (with an emphasis on poetry) and "transcreations" of Indian texts. Lal's house in middle-class Lake Gardens area of Kolkata also houses Book Nook, ...
- On the Shahnameh millennium concert: A conversation with Master Behzad Ranjabaran (Payvand Iran News)
When my friend Mohamad Tavakoli-Targhi asked me to write a piece about the Shahnameh Millennium Concert, I thought it might be best to interview the composer of "Persian Trilogy," Behzad Ranjbaran. -Fariba Amini
- Essay contest: What's your favorite day of the week? - LA Youth
LA YouthEssay contest: What's your favorite day of the week?LA Youth, CA - 8 minutes agoBeing the writer that I am (I write poetry and music) this extra time comes in handy. Besides church and free time, what really makes my Saturdays great is ...
- Ruth Padel's top 10 women poets - guardian.co.uk
Ruth Padel's top 10 women poetsguardian.co.uk, UK - 2 hours agoEveryone today knows and loves The World's Wife and the recent love poems in Rapture, but she made her name by much more political work (and a different ...
- Excerpt from 'The Uncertain Art' (USA Today)
The Uncertain Art'
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