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- Danielle Steel says that's why she keeps writing (75 so far), despite the burdens of her insecurity, fame (Ventura County Star)
It's only 9:33, but already Danielle Steel is having a lousy morning. She's in a Rockefeller Plaza dressing room, having her hair tugged and makeup tweaked. She's endured questioning from Matt Lauer on the "Today" show and soon faces a second round with Kathie Lee Gifford and Hoda Kotb.
- Line from T.S. Eliot poem intrigues literature buffs (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)
The stilted letters have a childish quality about them, but the words they compose -- "I wish I were a pair of ragged claws scuttling across the floors of silent seas" -- are anything but ...
- Jenice Armstrong: Day 2 of Sexy Singles - Philadelphia Daily News
Jenice Armstrong: Day 2 of Sexy SinglesPhiladelphia Daily News, PA - 9 minutes agoHow he relaxes: "I am a writer of poetry no one but me really reads . . . it is said that I live in my own world, and my world is always good. ...
- Scranton native’s book on Tolstoy transformed into film - Scranton Times
Jay Parini has written a few shelves’ worth of books over the past four decades, from highly detailed historical novels to lyrical, nature-influenced poetry collections to hefty biographies on some of the most cherished authors in all of American ...
- Shappi Khorsandi: My uncle was attacked by a young girl last week. She obviously didn't know he is a black belt in ... (Guardian Unlimited)
Shappi Khorsandi: If someone teases you, you hit them, if they ask you to turn your music down, you give them abuse
- The science of desire - The Independent
It's a biological riddle. We think of our libidos as a force of nature beyond our control; yet we also complain, increasingly, that they are too weak. Cathy Holding investigates the enigma of sexual response Human sexual response is a complex ...
- Happy Birthday, Milton - World Magazine
Happy Birthday, MiltonWorld Magazine, NC - 2 hours agoRather than being employed for its own sake, [Milton’s] poetry is always in the service of ideas and moral commitments, and it is always demanding that its ...
- 'SUCCESS IS THE OUTCOME OF MY POVERTY': MATHOORJI - Star of Mysore
'SUCCESS IS THE OUTCOME OF MY POVERTY': MATHOORJIStar of Mysore, India - 7 hours ago... a man is called to be a street-sweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. ...
- Why Stuffed Sharks Cost So Damn Much - Reason.com
The poet Wallace Stevens, wealthy from his position as vice president of The Hartford Accident and Indemnity insurance company, once remarked that there was a huge difference between appreciating art and owning it. But Don Thompson, a business ...
- Minnesota author unravels tangled emotions in 'Famous Suicides of the Japanese Empire' (Pioneer Press)
"All my life I wanted our father to be a hero. Perhaps he was."
- Learning made fun: Uni camp gives taste of high school life - Urbana/Champaign News-Gazette
Learning made fun: Uni camp gives taste of high school lifeUrbana/Champaign News-Gazette, IL - 3 hours agoIn between dancing and poetry on Thursday, the second-to-last day of camp, Maya Lagerstam, 9, of Champaign, said she particularly liked learning about "how ...
- Alex Gray loved all things tartan and green (The Sudbury Star)
Alex Gray has been described as unfailingly energetic, passionate about community service and always up for a good Robbie Burns dinner party -- with Haggis, of course. The former Inco gardener, CBC radio show host, scout leader and Scottish dance teacher passed away at the age of 80 [...]
- Writing when the sky opens (The Daily Iowan)
Hemingway wrote that violent death is one of the simplest things to write about, and author/poet Forrest Gander agrees. Instead of taking that easier path, Gander challenged himself to write at the opposite end of the emotional spectrum -the complexities of love and relationships, and his début novel As a Friend was born.
- Take your partners for a deadly dance - Guardian Unlimited
This year's Fringe offers a wealth of fresh writing. Leading the way at the Traverse is The New Electric Ballroom , another gem from Enda Walsh, the multi-award-winning writer of Disco Pigs, who also directs. While The Walworth Farce, last year's ...
- Mark your calendar: Aug. 7, 2008 (The Union)
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