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- Live blog with Lynne Spears book author Lorilee Craker - Grand Rapids Press
What do Britney, Jamie Lynn and mom Lynne Spears have in common with Grand Rapids? The answer: "local author Lorilee Craker." Lorilee sat down with Lynne Spears this year to write "Through the Storm," a memoir released Tuesday about raising daughters ...
- DVD Review: Missing (Blogcritics.org)
Solid thriller that had potential to be great. The 1982 political film, Missing, by Costa-Gavras (his first American production), is soon to be released on DVD by The Criterion Collection. It’s a good film, but not a great one. This is mostly because it lacks any real poetry, the way Ingmar Bergman’s anti-war film, Shame, has. Yes, it’s well plotted, well acted, well directed,...
- Funeral pending for poet Charles Guenther - St. Louis Post-Dispatch
It is with sadness that I have just finished writing an obituary for Charles Guenther, who died Thursday at 88. He was such a quiet gentleman and one of the most generous, hard-working book reviewers I’ve ever worked with. He reviewed poetry for ...
- Kapil Sibal turns poetical on a BlackBerry (IANS via Yahoo! India News)
New Delhi, Aug 18 (IANS) Science and Technology Minister Kapil Sibal knows how to get the creative juices flowing from his mobile.
- 100 years on, poet Dinkar remains popular as ever (The Times of India)
The poetry of Ramdhari Singh 'Dinkar', whose 100th birth anniversary was celebrated on Tuesday, also had a softer side and could seamlessly unravel layers of human relationship in rhyme.
- Submissions requested for local magazine (Greencastle Banner-Graphic)
The Putnam County Public Library is publishing The Putnam County Literary Magazine., and is asking for submissions. A library card for Putnam County Public Library is not required to submit to this...
- Begley the Bookie - New York Observer
For a subtle, impressively intelligent discussion of a topic that’s on just about everybody’s mind these day, see David Runciman’s Political Hypocrisy (Princeton, $29.95). Mr. Runciman, a lecturer in political theory at Cambridge, begins with ...
- Entries sought for short story contest - Sioux City Journal
Entries sought for short story contestSioux City Journal, IA - 11 hours agoFirst- and second-place winners will be announced at the Vermillion Literary Project's Poetry Slam on Oct. 30. First prize is $200. To register, download an ...
- Sarah Jessica Parker Shops for Public Schools - The Epoch Times
Sarah Jessica Parker Shops for Public SchoolsThe Epoch Times, NY - 2 hours agoNext was ‘Ballistics,’ a book of poetry by Billy Collins, and another book, ‘Whatever it Takes: Geoffrey Canada's Quest to Change Harlem and America,’ by ...
- Escaping Russia for New Life in US - NewsMax.com
Escaping Russia for New Life in USNewsMax.com, FL - 41 minutes agoA translator, an American named Jack, who emigrated to Soviet Russia in the 1930s, became a friend of mine in the 1960s. When Jack had lived in the United ...
- Inclement times - guardian.co.uk
Inclement timesguardian.co.uk, UK - 1 hour agoJohn Milton is treated with proper reverence, because of his political philosophy as well as his poetry. As he wrote in A Free Commonwealth: "They who are ...
- In The Red And Brown Water - This is London
In The Red And Brown WaterThis is London, UK - 4 hours agoIn 22 scenes, characterised by demotic speech and flashes of beautiful, street-wise poetry, we witness the eerie process by which the dream comes true. ...
- Karadzic: One of world's most wanted men - Turkish Daily News
Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, who was arrested on Monday, saw himself as a defender of Serbs during the 1992-95 Bosnian war but ended up a fugitive wanted on genocide charges. His 11 years at large had long been a stumbling block to ...
- Revelation redefined (Creative Loafing Charlotte)
Plus, savoring Foxfire ... By Perry Tannenbaum Remember the red clown nose and the Superman pj's that once adorned the savior? Well, in the current Theatre Charlotte revival of Godspell, that conspicuously un-sagely Jesus has been transfigured — into a grownup. Executive director Ron Law, taking over stage directing chores at the Queens Road barn for the second time this year, has seen the ...
- Masters weave ikat fabric rich in Uzbek culture - San Francisco Gate
What do Oscar de la Renta and Rasul Mirzaahmedov have in common? The New York fashion designer and the Uzbek master weaver share a passion for ikat, a fabric created through a complex process called "tying a cloud." De la Renta, who first used the ...
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